The deleterious effects of smoking resumption after heart transplantation.

Aims: Smoking is linked to disease and survival in the general and transplant population. We studied the smoking history, disease and survival of patients after heart transplantation.

Methods: A total of 130 patients who underwent heart transplantation between 1995 and 2019 received a questionnaire to document their smoking history.

Pleural Nodules and Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy in a Smoker: An Unusual Case Report.

The authors report a case of thoracic splenosis, which is the autotransplantation of splenic tissue into the pleural cavity. Splenosis in the chest is a rare entity and most often an incidental finding on chest computed tomography, typically showing solitary or multiple well-defined, noncalcified pleural nodules of variable size in the left hemithorax. It is important to include this benign pathology in the differential diagnosis among other, generally malignant, pleural lesions.