Lung - Transplantation

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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, pulmonary oedema, and traumatic lung...

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Right Basilar Segmental Autologous Lung Transplantation With Carinal Reconstruction for Central Lung SCC

September 24, 2026 | Akshay PatelSilver Contributor

This case report describes a 75-year-old patient with a centrally located squamous cell carcinoma extending from the carina to the right intermediate bronchus and the superior segment of the lower...

Podcast

The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 174: Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation

September 17, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with James Cox, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA,...

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,...

Podcast

The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 173: Uniportal Robotics in the UAE

September 10, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Taj Mohammed Fiyaz Chowdhry, a consultant thoracic surgeon at Burjeel Specialty Hospital, Sharjah, UAE, about uniportal robotics in the...

Video

Donor Lung Harvest—The Indian Technique

October 24, 2022 | Kamran Ali

Harvesting a well-preserved and undamaged pair of donor lungs is vital for a good outcome after a lung transplant. This video shows the authors’ retrieval technique, which has been standardized...

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Current Achievements and Future Applications of Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion: Where Do We Go From Here?

July 15, 2022 | Jessica Luc

In this article, the authors provide an expert opinion on the developments, current landscape, and direction in which ex vivo lung perfusion will undertake.

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Evaluation of the INSPIRE Trial and Its Implications for Lung Transplantation With Normothermic Portable Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion

October 30, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A balanced appraisal of last year’s manuscript from the Lancet Group on a relatively novel portable Organ Care System for donor lungs. The analysis of the technical complications, especially organ...

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Long-Term Outcomes of Lung Transplant With Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion

October 9, 2019 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

Ex vivo lung perfusion was used in 25% of transplanted lungs in the Toronto program since 2008. This resulted in an increase in the number of transplanted patients without any...

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Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Adults: Update of the CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report

September 5, 2019 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

The January update of an expert panel from the American College of Chest Physicians on the expanding clinical entity of pulmonary hypertension, especially pertinent to the transplant community.

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Video

UK Lung Transplantation: Present and Future Perspectives

June 24, 2019 | Maziar Khorsandi…

John Dark, of Freeman Hospital and Newcastle University in the UK, is the National Clinical Lead for Governance within Organ Donation and Transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant. Professor Dark...

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Outcomes of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a Bridge to Lung Transplantation

May 31, 2019 | Claire Vernon

Tipograf and colleagues analyzed outcomes for 121 patients with end-stage lung disease who were placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), 70 of whom (59%) were successfully bridged to lung transplantation....

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Regeneration of Severely Damaged Lungs Using an Interventional Cross-Circulation Platform

May 29, 2019 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

A common cause of donor lung unsuitability is aspiration pneumonitis. Pig lungs experimentally damaged by aspiration of gastric contents were supported using cross-circulation with a living swine donor, resulting in...

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