On this episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the Digital Media Editors invite lead author Jonathan E. Williams, MD, to discuss the paper, “Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion: National Trends and Post-Transplant Outcomes.”

Dr. Williams is a general surgery resident at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with work focusing on contemporary lung preservation strategies, perfusion techniques, and particularly, EVLP.

The episode explores:

• How the study explores the theory that EVLP use may increase transplant volumes
• Preserving data quality and other study limitations
• How to work in fields of study that sometimes yield as many questions as answers

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Those on heart transplant teams should tune in again later this month for a study on sympathetic reinnervation in cardiac transplant recipients.

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