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Lung - Other

January 11, 2019
Patient Care and General Interest Ireland’s Cabinet is expected to consider opt-out organ donation legislation this spring.
January 9, 2019
The authors discuss the bronchoscopic treatment of chickpea inhalation in a 2-year-old child with mediastinal and subcutaneous emphysema.
November 26, 2018
The author demonstrates the use of three-dimensional printing of a complex pulmonary arteriovenous malformation for the precise planning and execution of surgical repair.
October 15, 2018
The authors discuss a right unipulmonary transplant for pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis, a rare indication for lung transplantation.
October 10, 2018
A brief viewpoint article (by the savior of baby Esperanza) from a widely read non-surgical journal on the debate on ECMO/EOLIA. I assume  'thoracotomy' implies 'sternotomy' as the standard surgical approach for ECMO cannulation in adults and larger children. 
October 8, 2018
This video demonstrates a posterolateral thoracotomy. The authors detail the procedure in a step-by-step fashion, using diagrams and surgical video to illustrate key technical elements.
September 19, 2018
A 50-year-old woman with severe emphysema due to smoking underwent lung volume reduction surgery of her right upper lobe.
September 13, 2018
Exciting debate on the EOLIA trial! https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/extracorporeal-membrane-oxygenation-severe-a...
September 12, 2018
The authors present the surgical treatment of a 68-year-old woman who presented with a large pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm after prior right heart catheterization.
September 11, 2018
The Editorial Group is grateful to Dr Manos Kapetanakis for bringing to our attention their small case series on a ' lifestyle' late complication of pneumonectomy for malignancy. It will be challenging to guide the swimmer with curable central pulmonary cancer in making an informed decision on the strength of the sporadic Keeling Syndrome.

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