Patient Care and General Interest
A charity bazaar raised money for a Shanghai Chest Hospital project that offers free heart surgery to children with congenital heart disease in China.
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Lung
June 8, 2018
June 7, 2018
G. Alexander Patterson of the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, discusses oncologic outcomes after VATS resections.
May 31, 2018
This randomized trial evaluating the relative efficacy of immunotherapy and chemotherapy in patients with recurrent or metastatic disease, immunotherapy was associated with significantly better progression-free survival. Tumor mutational burden was a marker for patient selection for immunotherapy.
May 30, 2018
The addition of pembrolizumab (targeting PD-1) to standard chemotherapy substantially improved time to progression and overall survival compared to chemotherapy alone in patients with metastatic lung cancer.
May 30, 2018
This video shows the successful surgical treatment of a large pneumatocele in the patient's right lower lobe using robotic marsupialization.
May 29, 2018
Umari and colleagues appraise approaches to optimize postoperative pain management after pulmonary resection by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. The authors recommend an opioid-sparing multimodal approach, and they discuss loco-regional analgesic techniques, nonopioid analgesics, and perioperative gabapentinoids.
May 25, 2018
Find it here: The 26th ESTS Meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
May 25, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
Coal miners in central Appalachia in the US have an increasing incidence of severe black lung disease and an associated increased need for lung transplantation.
May 24, 2018
A severe blow to the concept of venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for acute respiratory distress syndrome in the form of a well-executed randomized controlled trial.
May 23, 2018
The age-specific incidence of non-small cell lung cancer has reversed in individuals born since the 1960s, with women now having a higher incidence than men. This trend is not explained by differences in smoking habits.