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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 175: Oral Board AI Simulator

September 24, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory at the Memorial Learning Center...

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 175: Oral Board AI Simulator

September 24, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory...

JANS Article

CT Findings Maintains the Predictive Performance of an Existing Radiograph-Based Donor Lung Acceptability Score

September 17, 2026 | Akshay PatelSilver Contributor

This study assessed whether chest computed tomography (CT) findings improve the validated Lung Donor (LUNDON) score for predicting acceptance of brain-dead donor lungs. Among 2,454 donors who underwent CT, emphysema,...

JANS Article

Cystic Fibrosis

November 22, 2023 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

The value for the surgical team is to be found in the systematic approach and especially the candid discussion on benefits of pulmonary transplantation, with the frank statement that may...

JANS Article

Osimertinib with or without Chemotherapy in EGFR-Mutated Advanced NSCLC

November 10, 2023 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

A manuscript that wil certainly be discussed in lung MDT! The thought of a RCT in these earlier stages may be already in the mind of the sponsors… The authors...

JANS Article

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

May 24, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

A severe blow to the concept of venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for acute respiratory distress syndrome in the form of a well-executed randomized controlled trial.

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Discussion of “Intraoperative Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and the Possibility of Postoperative Prolongation Improve Survival in Bilateral Lung Transplantation”

May 3, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

A stimulating discussion of the Vienna paper that advances elective ECMO support for bilateral pulmonary transplantation.

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JANS Article

In Global News: Boy Band-Induced Collapsed Lung, Magnet Esophageal Anastomosis, and AKI After Heart Surgery

October 13, 2017 | Claire VernonGold Contributor

Patient Care A teenager suffered a “boy band-induced pneumothorax” at a One Direction concert, and the case was recently reported in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. At the 48th Union...

JANS Article

What’s New in Pulmonary Transplantation: Finding the Right Lung for Every Patient

February 20, 2016 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold ContributorGold Commentor

A succinct editorial from a British academic transplant surgeon. It discusses the need for stratifying the utilization of donor lungs based on recent and previous retrospective papers from North American...

JANS Article

Integrating Tumor and Stromal Gene Expression Signatures With Clinical Indices for Survival Stratification of Early-Stage Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

August 26, 2015 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

Investigators from Stanford developed a nine-gene expression predictor for survival outcome in early-stage nonsquamous NSCLC. They developed and validated a quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction assay easily applicable to routinely...

JANS Article

miR-Test: A Blood Test for Lung Cancer Early Detection

March 21, 2015 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

Concerns remain about the definition of a high risk population who can benefit from low-dose computed tomography screening programs. In this paper, the authors present a promising tool to optimize...

JANS Article

Objective Measurement and Clinical Significance of TILs in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

March 12, 2015 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

Samples from tissue microarrays of 552 NSCLC patients were analyzed to measure the levels of 3 different tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs): CD3, CD8, and CD20. An elevated level of CD3 or...

JANS Article

Untreatable Tuberculosis: Is Surgery the Answer?

March 1, 2015 | Marcelo JimenezBronze Contributor

The increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/XDR-TB) in some countries is alarming. When few therapeutic options remain, old procedures need to be re-evaluated based on evidence, specially,...

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