Lung - Transplantation
…This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Bologna University Hospital, Italy, about managing the left subclavian artery...
In this study of 4,854 brain-dead donors from three U.S. organ procurement organizations, the donor PaO2 trajectory strongly influenced lung procurement: More than 75 percent had low initial PaO2, but...
In this single-center retrospective review from the Toronto Lung Transplant Program, a two-surgeon donor-review system in which lungs declined by the primary on-call surgeon were reassessed by a second surgeon...
…This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with David Waller, Chair of the EACTS Emphysema Taskforce and Director of the EACTS Fundamentals Course in Thoracic Surgery, about...
This expert consensus document addresses lung volume reduction (LVR) for emphysema, including surgical and endobronchial approaches for appropriately selected patients. It provides guidance on patient selection, techniques, risks, transplantation considerations,...
