Lung & Mediastinal
This single-center retrospective study examined 86 living-donor lobar lung transplant recipients who received 163 lobar grafts. Airway complications occurred in eight grafts (4.9 percent), all presenting as bronchial stenosis. Segmental perfusion defects on postoperative lung-perfusion...
This article summarizes the surgical treatment of Pope Leo XIV, who was recently diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma. Surgeons performed a uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy. The surgery team reported...
This single-center retrospective study examined 86 living-donor lobar lung transplant recipients who received 163 lobar grafts. Airway complications occurred in eight grafts (4.9 percent), all presenting as bronchial stenosis. Segmental...
This video presents the authors’ standardized technique for multiportal robotic-assisted left pneumonectomy after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy, using a five-step hilar dissection based on the principles of the French lobectomy approach. In...
Tracheal rupture after endotracheal intubation is uncommon, occurring in approximately 0.005 percent to 0.37 percent of intubations, yet it carries substantial morbidity and mortality when recognition is delayed. The risk...
In this Memorial Sloan Kettering series, 11 patients with metastatic DLL3-high pulmonary carcinoid received the DLL3/CD3 bispecific T-cell engager tarlatamab. Eight patients (73 percent) achieved an objective response; all had...
Based on the international multicenter ECLS in Lung Transplantation Registry, this study compared the three surgical approaches to bilateral lung transplantation (BLTx) (clamshell, n=451; isolated bilateral thoracotomies, n=624; and median...
Thursday, March 18, 2027 – Sunday, March 21, 2027 @ All Day – The General Thoracic Surgical Club (GTSC) is thrilled to invite all passionate general thoracic medical professionals to...
A 63-year-old woman presented with myasthenia crisis and ptosis, for which she was treated with immunoglobulin. Her medical history included type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension, and hypothyroidism. A computed...
High tumor mutational burden (TMB) predicts not only response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) but also immune-related toxicity. In this single-center cohort of...
In this nationwide United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) analysis (2005–2025), Potel et al. compared extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), pretransplant mechanical ventilation (pMV), and combined ECMO plus pMV as bridges...
In this panel discussion, surgeons Leanne Ashrafian and Andrea Bille, both consultant thoracic surgeons in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Guy’s St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, join Ammara Watkins,...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Timur Kyashif, a cardiac resident at Jena University Hospital in Jena, Germany, about the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac,...






