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Indian Heart Journal, 2020 Objective: End stage heart failure is a lethal disease with a dismal 5 year survival. Heart transplantation has proven to be a highly effective modality of treatment in appropriately selected group of such patients.
K.R. Balakrishnan +9 more
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Breathe, 2018 I was born in 1959 in Lisbon. My early years were marked by a typical family life, and we travelled a lot because of my father's work. I completed my schooling until the 12th grade and then started to work. In 1981, I completed mandatory military service at the marines' school.
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BMC Surgery, 2022 Background Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common subtype of non-small cell lung cancer. The surgical strategy of lymph node dissection is controversial because many more patients are diagnosed at an early stage in clinical practice.
Cheng Fang, Yangwei Xiang, Weili Han
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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 +2 more
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Life, 2022 Background: Acute cellular rejection (ACR) is a complication after lung transplantation (LTx). The diagnosis of ACR is based on histologic findings using transbronchial forceps biopsy (FB). However, its diagnostic accuracy is limited because of the small
Carolin Steinack +7 more
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Case Report: Esophagectomy and Azygos Continuation of the Inferior Vena Cava: A Lethal Combination
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022 Azygos continuation of the inferior vena cava (IVC) is rare in the general population and even rarer among patients with esophageal carcinoma. In 90% of cases, this congenital IVC variant is isolated and does not affect the patient’s growth or ...
Yan Zhang +5 more
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Postoperative surgical complications after lung transplantation
Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia (English Edition), 2015 This is a review article on the main postoperative complications after lung transplantation: airways complications, vascular complications, pleural complications, surgical wound complications, and abdominal complications.Incidence data, severity, and ...
M. de la Torre +6 more
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Lobar lung transplantation-Is it comparable with standard lung transplantation? [PDF]
Transplant International, 2014 Objective: Lobar lung transplantation (LLuTX) is a therapeutic option mainly for urgent small recipients. Only series with limited numbers have been reported. This approach is technically more demanding than standard LuTX or simple downsizing by wedge resections. In our center this approach was liberally[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
Alexis Slama +10 more
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Biomolecular Concepts, 2021 Nowadays, mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) kinase domain are studied in targeted therapy of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors including gefitinib and erlotinib.
Mirtavoos-mahyari Hanifeh +6 more
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Frontiers in Surgery, 2023 ObjectiveWe report our experience of transition to robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) for lung resections with the da Vinci Xi surgical system, exposing short-term results.Materials and methodsThis is a single-center, retrospective analysis of RATS
Alessandro Palleschi +4 more
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