In the September 2021 episode of JHLT: The Podcast, Daniel R. Goldstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief of JHLT, leads a discussion with the JHLT Digital Media Editors about two studies in the September issue of The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation.

Starting at 1:26, David Schibilsky, MD, Marty Tam, MD, and Van-Khue Ton, MD, PhD, discuss a paper from Benck and colleagues at Cedars-Sinai entitled “Recipient and surgical factors trigger severe primary graft dysfunction after heart transplant.”

Starting at 12:27, Dr. Goldstein and Erika Lease, MD, discuss a study from Urso et al from Columbia University, called “Aspiration of conjugated bile acids predicts adverse lung transplant outcomes and correlates with airway lipid and cytokine dysregulation.”

Follow along in the August issue at www.jhltonline.org/current, and learn more about the work of the ISHLT COVID-19 Task Force at ishlt.org/covid-19-information. Don’t already get the Journal and want to read along? Join the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation at www.ishlt.org for a free subscription, or subscribe today at www.jhltonline.org.

This episode of JHLT: The Podcast, but not the studies within, is sponsored by Medtronic.