This month's JHLT: The Podcast is hosted by Digital Media Editor David Schibilsky, MD, who leads a discussion of two studies from the March issue of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation—and the first authors who presented them.

First, the editors explore a study entitled "Angiopoietin 2 and hsCRP are associated with pulmonary hemodynamics and long-term mortality respectively in CTEPH—Results from a prospective discovery and validation biomarker study," which comes from Hadinnapola and colleagues at the Papworth group in Cambridge, UK.

The editors welcome Charaka Hadinnapola, MA, MB, BChir, first author on the CTEPH study, to share the rationale in performing the research, its main findings, the changing understanding of the pathobiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension, and how Ang2 and hsCRP fit into the bigger cytokine picture in CTEPD and CTEPH patients.

Next, the editors welcome author J.K. Peel, MD, MSc, from the University of Toronto to discuss the paper her first authored, "Determining the impact of ex-vivo lung perfusion on hospital costs for lung transplantation: a retrospective cohort study."

This retrospective, before-after, propensity-score weighted cohort study explores how EVLP affects hospital costs and the associated transplant procedures, intending to evaluate whether the benefits of EVLP offset its additional cost. Dr. Peel shares what changes occurred at his center during the study period, how the results compare to other published evidence on EVLP costs, and whether the results are transferable to smaller centers.

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