Donor Lungs' Procurement Implementation with Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion in a Low-Volume Lung Transplant Center.

(1) Background: Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) is a technique designed to assess and recondition marginal lungs, potentially expanding the donor pool and improving transplant outcomes (2) Methods: This retrospective study evaluated lung transplantation outcomes after EVLP. Donor lungs were assessed using the Toronto protocol, with data on hemodynamics, gas exchange, and perfusion parameters collected and analyzed. Post-transplant complications and survival rates were also examined.

A Smartphone App for the Management of Postoperative Home Recovery After Thoracic Surgery Procedures: A Pilot Study Using the Care4Today™ App.

In recent years, the use of smartphones has significantly increased among populations of almost every age. The aim of our work is to analyze the impact of an application (app) that follows up with the progress of a patient who underwent a thoracic surgery procedure in the first 30 days after discharge. We prospectively analyzed all the patients included in the pilot study from March 2023 to September 2023.

Clinical and genomic profiling of a patient with a de novo ring chromosome 18: a case report highlighting autoimmune and neurological implications.

Ring chromosome 18 (r(18)) is a rare chromosomal abnormality characterized by the circular rearrangement of chromosome 18, which presents significant challenges in genotype-phenotype correlations due to variability in deletions across the 18p and 18q arms. We report the case of a pediatric patient with a de novo ring chromosome 18, diagnosed by karyotype analysis and confirmed by high-resolution SNP arrays. The patient exhibited pathogenic copy number variants (CNVs) in the 18p11.

[68Ga]Ga-FAPI-46 PET/CT for Staging Suspected/Confirmed Lung Cancer: Results on the Surgical Cohort Within a Monocentric Prospective Trial.

Background/objectives: To evaluate T&N-staging diagnostic performance of [68Ga]Ga-FAPI-46 PET/CT (FAPI) in a suspected/confirmed lung cancer surgical cohort.

Methods: Patients were enrolled in a prospective monocentric trial (EudraCT: 2021-006570-23) to perform FAPI, in addition to conventional-staging-flow-chart (including [18F]F-FDG PET/CT-FDG). For the current purpose, only surgical patients were included.