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).
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June 28, 2017
The authors present a patient with severe pulmonary emphysema who was treated with bilateral thoracoscopic lung volume reduction surgery.
June 20, 2017
This video shows a robotic sleeve lobectomy performed on a 65-year-old male patient with a proven adenocarcinoma at the orifice of the apical segment of the right lower lobe.
June 19, 2017
Chudgar and colleagues evaluated clinicopathologic variables and characteristics of treatment for 539 patients who had undergone pulmonary metastasectomy for soft-tissue sarcoma at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
June 2, 2017
The author demonstrates the technique for a VATS sleeve lobectomy in an 82-year-old woman.
May 29, 2017
This is a video of a right upper lobectomy done through a subxiphoid port.
May 17, 2017
An assessment of regional lung resection outcomes relative to compliance with NCCN resection guidelines was performed. Negative margins 94%, 91% anatomic, 51% hilar nodes sampled, 26% 3 mediastinal nodal stations sampled. On average, 17% of resections met all criteria, although the trend was upward over time.
May 17, 2017
Richard Whyte of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, discusses the evidence in favor of lung volume reduction surgery for patients with emphysema.
May 15, 2017
This video shows a VATS pneumonectomy in a patient with a 20-year history of bronchiectasis.
May 8, 2017
Researchers conducted a study, published in Nature, to investigate whether this genetic diversity could be tracked clinically.