Publications by authors named "J A Fessler"

The care for lung transplantation patients is a complex, multidisciplinary coordination of physician and non-physician teams throughout the perioperative period. The diversity of etiologies of recipient end-stage lung disease further complicate care, as recipients often present with concomitant end-stage cardiac disease. Recently, the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation has become the mechanical circulatory support of choice to provide cardiopulmonary stability throughout the perioperative period.

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Model-based methods play a key role in the reconstruction of compressed sensing (CS) MRI. Finding an effective prior to describe the statistical distribution of the image family of interest is crucial for model-based methods. Plug-and-play (PnP) is a general framework that uses denoising algorithms as the prior or regularizer.

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Traditional drug discovery efforts have largely focused on targeting rapid, reversible protein-mediated adaptations to undermine cancer cells' resistance to therapy. However, cancer cells also exploit DNA-based strategies, typically viewed as slow, irreversible, and unpredictable changes like point mutations or the selection of drug-resistant clones. Contrary to this perception, extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) represents a form of DNA alteration that is rapid, reversible, and predictable, playing a crucial role in cancer's adaptive response.

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