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Heart-lung transplantation for idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension and giant pulmonary artery aneurysm – case report [PDF]

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2020
Backgound Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) is a rare condition that requires lung transplantation in patients’ refractory to medical therapy.
T. Eadington, K. Santhanakrishnan, R. Venkateswaran   +2 more
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Evolution of the Surgical Management of Lung Cancer Invading the Spine: A Single Center Experience

Current Oncology, 2022
For patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer invading the spine, induction chemoradiotherapy combined with radical en bloc resection is the key to obtaining long-term survival.
Gabrielle Drevet, Théo Broussolle, Yanis Belaroussi, Lucie Duponchelle, Jean Michel Maury, Renaud Grima, Gualter Vaz, Clément Silvestre, François Tronc   +8 more
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High-affinity CD16 integration into a CRISPR/Cas9-edited CD38 locus augments CD38-directed antitumor activity of primary human natural killer cells

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, 2022
Background Adoptive transfer of natural killer (NK) cells with augmented antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) capabilities and resistance to CD38 targeting has the potential to enhance the clinical anti-myeloma activity of daratumumab (DARA ...
Long Chen, Richard Childs, Robert Reger, Mala Chakraborty, Joseph Andrew Clara, Emily R Levy, Stefan Barisic, Elena Cherkasova, David S J Allan   +8 more
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Cardiac Imaging in Patients After Fontan Palliation: Which Test and When?

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022
The Fontan operation represents the final stage of a series of palliative surgical procedures for children born with complex congenital heart disease, where a “usual” biventricular physiology cannot be restored.
Paolo Ciliberti, Paolo Ciancarella, Pasqualina Bruno, Davide Curione, Veronica Bordonaro, Veronica Lisignoli, Mario Panebianco, Marcello Chinali, Aurelio Secinaro, Lorenzo Galletti, Paolo Guccione   +10 more
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Lung Transplantation for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Optimized Referral and Listing Based on an Evolving Disease Concept

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 2023
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) was once a devastating and fatal disease entity, the outlook of which has been significantly improved by the continued progress of medical treatment algorithms.
Xiaokun Hu, Ningying Ding, Wanqiu Songchen, Ruifeng Wang, Jing Chen, Ailing Zhong, Jinzhu Nan, Yujie Zuo, Heng Huang, Dong Tian   +9 more
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A Transformer-Based Deep Learning Approach for Fairly Predicting Post-Liver Transplant Risk Factors [PDF]

J Biomed Inform. 2024 Jan;149:104545, 2023
Liver transplantation is a life-saving procedure for patients with end-stage liver disease. There are two main challenges in liver transplant: finding the best matching patient for a donor and ensuring transplant equity among different subpopulations. The current MELD scoring system evaluates a patient's mortality risk if not receiving an organ within ...
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Downregulation of Filamin a Expression in the Aorta Is Correlated With Aortic Dissection

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021
Filamins (FLNs) are actin cross-linking proteins, and as scaffolding proteins, FLNs are closely associated with the stabilization of the cytoskeleton. Nevertheless, the biological importance of FLNs in aortic dissection (AD) has not been well-elucidated.
Yue Chen, Xiang Wei, Xiang Wei, Xiang Wei, Xiang Wei, Zihao Zhang, Yi He, Bo Huo, Xian Guo, Xin Feng, Ze-Min Fang, Ding-Sheng Jiang, Ding-Sheng Jiang, Ding-Sheng Jiang, Ding-Sheng Jiang, Xue-Hai Zhu, Xue-Hai Zhu, Xue-Hai Zhu, Xue-Hai Zhu   +18 more
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Long-term outcomes after chest wall resection and repair with titanium bars and sternal plates

Frontiers in Surgery, 2022
ObjectivesEn-bloc complete resection remains the treatment of choice for localized chest wall (CW) tumors. Titanium bars reconstruction demonstrated encouraging results with satisfactory early outcomes.
Hugo Clermidy, Guillaume Fadel, Alexandra De Lemos, Pauline Pradere, Delphine Mitilian, Antoine Girault, Jean-Baptiste Menager, Dominique Fabre, Sacha Mussot, Nicolas Leymarie, Elie Fadel, Olaf Mercier   +11 more
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Heart transplantation in a patient with complex heart lung disease: a case report

Korean Journal of Transplantation, 2021
Heart disease is often accompanied by lung disease as they share the same risk factors. Heart or lung transplantation is regarded as a definitive treatment for the end-stage disease of each, while the expected median survival for lung transplantation is ...
Seok Hyun Kim, Ga Yun Kim, Ji Soo Oh, Soo Yong Lee   +3 more
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Totally endoscopic non-robotic excision of aortic valve fibroelastoma: a case report

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2022
Background Papillary fibroelastomas (PFEs) are a rare subtype of benign primary cardiac tumours, which are most commonly found on the aortic valve. Although median sternotomy is still used frequently there has been different attempts to remove the aortic
Sadia Batool, Arnaud Patoir, Amelie de Meaux, Marco Vola   +3 more
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