Lung - Transplantation

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Outcomes of Lung Transplantation Surgery Performed at Night

June 4, 2026 | Mujtaba MubashirGold Contributor

This retrospective cohort study from the Netherlands investigated the impact of surgical timing on the outcomes of bilateral lung transplantation and evaluated the utility of deferring surgery to daytime hours. Analyzing 227 adults, the authors...

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Outcomes After Lung Re-Transplantation for Restrictive Allograft Syndrome Have Not Improved Over Two Decades

June 18, 2026 | Mujtaba MubashirGold Contributor

This retrospective United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database study evaluated the evolving strategies and outcomes of lung re-transplantation for restrictive allograft syndrome (RAS) over two decades (2005–2025), stratifying 293...

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Lung Transplant Feasibility After Lobar Resection in a Case of Pectus Excavatum and Severe Unilateral Space Loss

June 16, 2026 | Sanjay Agrawal…

A 28-year-old female initially presented in 2022 with a persistent cough. Computed tomography (CT) imaging demonstrated features consistent with pulmonary sarcoidosis, which was subsequently confirmed by bronchoscopic biopsy. She was...

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SCTS 2026 | Lung Transplant: Daytime Surgery

June 12, 2026 | Laurens Ceulemans

At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, Dr. Laurens Ceulemans, a thoracic and transplant surgeon and Associate Professor of Surgery at UZ/KU Leuven, Belgium,...

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SCTS 2026 | Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Transplants

June 12, 2026 | Laurens Ceulemans…

At the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland Annual Meeting, leading surgeons presented on mesenchymal stem cells and transplants. Dr. Laurens Ceulemans, a thoracic and transplant surgeon...

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In Global News: Blood Pressure Guidelines, TMVR, and Older Donor Lungs

November 17, 2017 | Claire Vernon

Patient Care The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology released an updated definition of high blood pressure this week. Heart patients in Malaysia seem to be successfully...

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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support Bridge to Transplant: Avoiding a Bridge to Nowhere

November 16, 2017 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An enthusiastic yet balanced and succinct editorial on the occasion of a small series with short follow-up and absolute survival of ECMO-supported recipients of pulmonary transplantation (mostly with interstitial fibrosis)...

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In Global News: Singing With Donated Lungs, the PURE Study Reports, and Congenital Aortic Stenosis

October 6, 2017 | Claire Vernon

Patient Care An opera singer talks about receiving a double-lung transplant. A team at the American University of Beirut Medical Center in Lebanon performs the first transcaval percutaneous aortic valve...

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In Global News: Transcatheter Heart Valves, Lung Function, and the Human Sinoatrial Node

August 4, 2017 | Claire Vernon

Patient Care An Iraqi boy from Mosul went from Jordan to Australia for surgery to correct the blood flow through his heart and repair a hole between his ventricles. Transcatheter...

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Technique for Repair of a Tracheocutaneous Fistula After Lung Transplantation

July 31, 2017 | Andrew Everett…

Tracheocutaneous fistulas are infrequent complications of prolonged tracheostomies. This video explains the technique used at the authors’ institution for closure of a tracheocutaneous fistula in the context of a clinical...

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In Global News: Multimodal Analgesia, Opioids and COPD, and MI Mondays

July 7, 2017 | Claire Vernon

Patient Care A boy’s growth had fallen well behind that of his twin brother, leading doctors in Abu Dhabi, UAE, to discover and surgically treat a congenital heart condition. A...

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Mid-term results of bilateral lung transplant with postoperatively extended intraoperative extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe pulmonary hypertension

June 28, 2017 | Claire Vernon

The authors report on 38 patients who underwent bilateral lung transplantation for severe pulmonary hypertension with routine application of prophylactic postoperative veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). These patients’ survival up...

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Pushing the Boundaries in Thoracic Surgery – Lung Transplantation

May 13, 2016 | Walter Klepetko

Walter Kleptko of the Vienna Medical University, Vienna, Austria, gives an exciting talk on the current state and future of lung transplantation. Dr. Klepetko discusses advances in surgical techniques, donor...

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