Bryan A. Whitson

Laparoscopic resection of periaortic paragangliomas.

Molecular pathways in malignant pleural mesothelioma.

Risk factors for primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation.

Repression of cap-dependent translation attenuates the transformed phenotype in non-small cell lung cancer both in vitro and in vivo.

Pulmonary embolism associated with a vacuum-induced arm compartment syndrome: a setting for increased vigilance.

Effects of insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor inhibition in mesothelioma. Thoracic Surgery Directors Association Resident Research Award.

Cardiopulmonary bypass in revascularization and fluid management of exercise-induced acute myocardial infarction.

Technology-enhanced interactive surgical education.

Wedge gastroplasty and reinforced crural repair: important components of laparoscopic giant or recurrent hiatal hernia repair.

Trends in the treatment and outcome of pancreatic cancer in the United States.

Thoracoscopic lingulectomy for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis.

High polymorphism in the trisomic portion of a gastric cancer cell line.

Levitronix ventricular assist devices as a bridge to recovery after profound biventricular heart failure associated with pulmonary aspergillosis.

False-positive mediastinal lymph node activity on positron emission tomographic scan after adjuvant treatment of gynecologic malignancies.

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is more favorable than thoracotomy for resection of clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer.

Entero-endocrine changes after gastric bypass in diabetic and nondiabetic patients: a preliminary study.

Adipokine response in diabetics and nondiabetics following the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a preliminary study.

Evolution of clipping for thoracoscopic sympathectomy in symptomatic hyperhidrosis.

Surgical assessment and intraoperative management of mediastinal lymph nodes in non-small cell lung cancer.

Bloodless cardiac surgery is associated with decreased morbidity and mortality.

Primary graft dysfunction and long-term pulmonary function after lung transplantation.

Cholelithiasis and cholecystitis in a retained gallbladder remnant after cholecystectomy.

Diaphragmatic hernias after sequential left ventricular assist device explantation and orthotopic heart transplant: early results of laparoscopic repair with polytetrafluoroethylene.

Is distal aortic perfusion in traumatic thoracic aortic injuries necessary to avoid paraplegic postoperative outcomes?

Recommendations for optimal use of imaging studies to clinically stage mediastinal lymph nodes in non-small-cell lung cancer patients.

Preoperative ultrasound and nuclear medicine studies improve the accuracy in localization of adenoma in hyperparathyroidism.

Diabetic gastroparesis-associated bezoar resolution via "cola-lysis".

Rotation as a course: lessons learned from developing a hybrid online/on-ground approach to general surgical resident education.

Extension of survival by resection of asynchronous renal cell carcinoma metastases to mediastinal lymph nodes.

Intra-abdominal pressure cutoffs should not be absolutes.

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration of mediastinal lymph nodes: a single institution's early learning curve.

Minimally invasive versus open Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: effect on immune effector cells.

Impact of preoperative smoking status on postoperative complication rates and pulmonary function test results 1-year following pulmonary resection for non-small cell lung cancer.

Thoracoscopic versus thoracotomy approaches to lobectomy: differential impairment of cellular immunity.

Surgery for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review of the video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus thoracotomy approaches to lobectomy.

Radiographic staging of mediastinal lymph nodes in non-small cell lung cancer patients.

Primary palmoplantar hyperhidrosis and thoracoscopic sympathectomy: a new objective assessment method.

Risk of adverse outcomes associated with blood transfusion after cardiac surgery depends on the amount of transfusion.

Survival of patients with distal esophageal and gastric cardia tumors: a population-based analysis of gastroesophageal junction carcinomas.

Not every bulb is a rose: a functional comparison of bulb suction devices.

Determination of the minimum number of lymph nodes to examine to maximize survival in patients with esophageal carcinoma: data from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results database.

Serratus anterior transposition muscle flaps for bronchial coverage: technique and functional outcomes.

Establishing a usable electronic portfolio for surgical residents: trying to keep it simple.

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical lobectomy: the potential oncological benefit of surgical immunomodulation.

The National Lung Cancer Screening Trial: the ripple effect begins?

Lung transplantation after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

The thoracic surgical intensivist: the best critical care doctor for our thoracic surgical patients.

Survival after lobectomy versus segmentectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer: a population-based analysis.

The 2010 Thoracic Surgery Residents Association workforce survey report: a view from the trenches.

Ex vivo lung perfusion and extracorporeal life support in lung transplantation.

Invasive adenocarcinoma with bronchoalveolar features: a population-based evaluation of the extent of resection in bronchoalveolar cell carcinoma.

Acute airway compromise from a hemorrhagic posterior cervical-mediastinal mass: Rare presentation of a parathyroid adenoma.

Invited commentary.

T1/T2 non-small-cell lung cancer treated by lobectomy: does tumor anatomic location matter?

True negative predictive value of endobronchial ultrasound in lung cancer: are we being conservative enough?

The rise of Clostridium difficile infection in lung transplant recipients in the modern era.

Increasing numbers of rib fractures do not worsen outcome: an analysis of the national trauma data bank.

Contrast transthoracic echocardiography and the placement of a bicaval dual-lumen catheter in a Swine model of venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Outcomes in the current surgical era following operative repair of acute Type A aortic dissection in the elderly: a single-institutional experience.

Calcineurin inhibitors and Clostridium difficile infection in adult lung transplant recipients: the effect of cyclosporine versus tacrolimus.

Thoracoscopic thymectomy: technical pearls to a 21st century approach.

Who truly benefits from extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a call to develop predictive models.

Left ventricular outflow tract occluding thrombus after biventricular mechanical circulatory support as a bridge to recovery.

Retained catheter dilator in right ventricular outflow tract for 22 years.

Extracorporeal life support for acute respiratory distress syndromes.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation post lung transplantation.

A contemporary analysis of induction immunosuppression in pediatric lung transplant recipients.

Simultaneous procedures during left ventricular assist device implantation: is less always more?

A nonthoracotomy myocardial infarction model in an ovine using autologous platelets.

Impact of pulmonary hypertension on survival in patients with cystic fibrosis undergoing lung transplantation: an analysis of the UNOS registry.

EPR spectroscopy as a predictive tool for the assessment of marginal donor livers perfused on a normothermic ex vivo perfusion circuit.

To induce or not to induce: a 21st century evaluation of lung transplant immunosuppression's effect on survival.

Hemolysis, pump thrombus, and neurologic events in continuous-flow left ventricular assist device recipients.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and retransplantation in lung transplantation: an analysis of the UNOS registry.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in pediatric organ donation.

Survival benefit of induction immunosuppression in cystic fibrosis lung transplant recipients.

Animal models of ex vivo lung perfusion as a platform for transplantation research.

Survival of patients with cystic fibrosis on ECMO: analysis of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Registry.

Organ assessment and repair centers: The future of transplantation is near.

Treatment of acute lung injury by targeting MG53-mediated cell membrane repair.

Changes in pulmonary artery pressure affect survival differently in lung transplant recipients who have pulmonary hypertension or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Veno-venous ECMO: a synopsis of nine key potential challenges, considerations, and controversies.

Indications and outcomes in adult lung transplantation.

Donor selection in heart transplantation.

Use of the donor lung after asphyxiation or drowning: effect on lung transplant recipients.

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in adult organ procurement.

Pulmonary hypertension in cystic fibrosis with advanced lung disease.

Impact of induction immunosuppression on survival in heart transplant recipients: a contemporary analysis of agents.

Influence of donor and recipient age in lung transplantation.

Survival in children on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation at the time of lung transplantation.

High-risk age window for mortality in children with cystic fibrosis after lung transplantation.

Effect of pulmonary hypertension on survival in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis after lung transplantation: An analysis of the United Network of Organ Sharing registry.

Invited commentary.

Racial Disparities in Outcomes of Adult Heart Transplantation.

Influence of age on survival in adult patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation before lung transplantation.

Outcomes in Pediatric Lung Transplant Recipients Receiving Adult Allografts.

Influence of pulmonary hypertension on survival in advanced lung disease.

Mortality Risk and Pulmonary Function in Adults With Cystic Fibrosis at Time of Wait Listing for Lung Transplantation.

Left atrial myxoma causing coronary steal: an atypical cause of angina.

Influence of diabetes on survival in patients with cystic fibrosis before and after lung transplantation.

Survival in Adult Lung Transplant Recipients Receiving Pediatric Versus Adult Donor Allografts.

Influence of HLA Mismatching on Survival in Lung Transplantation.

Prevalence of Pulmonary Hypertension and its Influence on Survival in Patients With Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Prior to Lung Transplantation.

Human leukocyte antigen mismatching and survival after lung transplantation in adult and pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis.

Influence of human leukocyte antigen mismatching on bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome in lung transplantation.

Cystic Fibrosis Associated with Worse Survival After Liver Transplantation.

Cigarette Smoking Effect on Survival After Lung Transplant in Cystic Fibrosis.

Case Report: Spontaneous Iliac Intramuscular Bleed After Orthotopic Heart Transplant.

Preservation solutions used during abdominal transplantation: Current status and outcomes.

Induction Therapy for Lung Transplantation in COPD: Analysis of the UNOS Registry.

Institutional Cost Comparison Between Heart Transplants and Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantations.

Basic and translational research careers as early faculty cardiothoracic surgeons-perspectives from 2 young investigators.

How do we utilize risk scores to improve patient outcomes?

Surgery for acquired cardiac disease: An evolving paradigm with a promising future.

Refined prediction: Does improved accuracy enhance our ability to improve patient outcomes?

Combined heart-liver transplantation: Indications, outcomes and current experience.

Using the forest (plots) to see the trees.

Old Tool, New Application?

Successful treatment of donor-derived hepatitis C infection in a lung transplant recipient.

Initiation and management of adult veno-arterial extracorporeal life support.

Percutaneous Single-Site Cannulation For Acute Right Sided Support.

Lung transplantation with lungs from older donors: an analysis of survival in elderly recipients.

Commentary on the Homburg Lung: Pro/Con of Miniaturized ECCO2R.

Anticoagulation management following left ventricular assist device implantation is similar across all provider strategies.

Increased cross-bridge recruitment contributes to transient increase in force generation beyond maximal capacity in human myocardium.

Human Myocardium Has a Robust α1A-Subtype Adrenergic Receptor Inotropic Response.

Etiology-dependent impairment of relaxation kinetics in right ventricular end-stage failing human myocardium.

Normothermic Liver Perfusion and the Clinical Implications for Liver Transplantation.

Sometimes the "right" is wrong.

Force-frequency relationship and early relaxation kinetics are preserved upon sarcoplasmic blockade in human myocardium.

Pulmonary cuff dysfunction after lung transplant surgery: A systematic review of the evidence and analysis of its clinical implications.

MG 53 Protein Protects Aortic Valve Interstitial Cells From Membrane Injury and Fibrocalcific Remodeling.

Intrahepatic Delivery of Pegylated Catalase Is Protective in a Rat Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury Model.

[D-Ala, D-Leu] Enkephalin Improves Liver Preservation During Normothermic Ex Vivo Perfusion.

An Echodensity in the Right Ventricle of a Patient with a Leadless Pacemaker: Is it Pathologic?

Commentary: Early to extubate, early to discharge-providing further evidence in favor of fast tracking and early recovery after surgery pathways.

Palliative Use of Nitroglycerin to Improve Microvascular Circulation.

Impact of heart rate on cross-bridge cycling kinetics in failing and nonfailing human myocardium.

Commentary: Of mice and men.

Letter by Zhu et al Regarding Article, "Glucose-Sensitive Myokine/Cardiokine MG53 Regulates Systemic Insulin Response and Metabolic Homeostasis".

Caval Stenosis After Bicaval Orthotopic Heart Transplantation: Routine Transesophageal Echocardiography Assessment of the Caval Anastomoses May Avert This Complication.

Risk of reoperative valve surgery for endocarditis associated with drug use.

Commentary: The personalized medicine of cardiothoracic surgery: Delving into subpopulations identifies the right therapy for the right patients.

Impaired neuronal sodium channels cause intranodal conduction failure and reentrant arrhythmias in human sinoatrial node.

Commentary: For the pumps they are a-changin'.

MG53 Does Not Manifest the Development of Diabetes in Mice.

A Novel Negative Pressure-Flow Waveform to Ventilate Lungs for Normothermic Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion.

Early COVID-19 infection after lung transplantation.

Commentary: Stop the leak before it floods.

Pegylated-Catalase Is Protective in Lung Ischemic Injury and Oxidative Stress.

Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ECPR) for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest due to Pulseless Ventricular Tachycardia/Fibrillation.

Optical Mapping-Validated Machine Learning Improves Atrial Fibrillation Driver Detection by Multi-Electrode Mapping.

Unmasking Arrhythmogenic Hubs of Reentry Driving Persistent Atrial Fibrillation for Patient-Specific Treatment.

Commentary: Low cardiac output syndrome: A definition or a diagnosis code?

Recombinant MG53 Protein Protects Mice from Lethal Influenza Virus Infection.

Remodeling of the mA landscape in the heart reveals few conserved post-transcriptional events underlying cardiomyocyte hypertrophy.

Mitsugumin 53 mitigation of ischemia-reperfusion injury in a mouse model.

Effectiveness of short vs long-course perioperative antibiotics in lung transplant recipients with donor positive respiratory cultures.

New or Worsened Mitral Regurgitation After Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement: A Systematic Review.

Aggressive treatment of afterload mismatch to address left ventricular dysfunction after mitral valve repair: A case report.

MG53, A Tissue Repair Protein with Broad Applications in Regenerative Medicine.

MG53 as a Novel Therapeutic Protein to Treat Acute Lung Injury.

Microfibrillar-Associated Protein 4 Regulates Stress-Induced Cardiac Remodeling.

One to Ten…What's in a Number?

Attributes of Successful Thoracic Surgery Residency Matriculants: Could It Be Mentorship?

Evaluating the Impact of Pulmonary Artery Obstruction After Lung Transplant Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Impact of etiology on force and kinetics of left ventricular end-stage failing human myocardium.

Donor Aorta as Conduit for Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion.

Fibroblast-Specific Proteotranscriptomes Reveal Distinct Fibrotic Signatures of Human Sinoatrial Node in Nonfailing and Failing Hearts.

Allocation changes in heart transplantation: What has really changed?

2020 in review.

Muscle multiorgan crosstalk with MG53 as a myokine for tissue repair and regeneration.

Impact of thoracotomy approach on right ventricular failure and length of stay in left ventricular assist device implants: an intermacs registry analysis.

MG53 suppresses NF-κB activation to mitigate age-related heart failure.

Temporary extracorporeal left ventricular support with transapical ProtekDuo cannula.

Postoperative management of iatrogenic membranous tracheobronchial injury following bilateral lung transplant.

Continuous renal replacement therapy and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: implications in the COVID-19 era.

Safety of direct oral anticoagulants in solid organ transplant recipients: A meta-analysis.

Mentorship, Sponsorship and the Emerging Role of Social Media.

Pulmonary artery dissection in long standing idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension: A case report.

Insights into early postoperative acute kidney injury following lung transplantation.

Commentary: Left ventricular assist device infections: An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.

Thoracic transplantation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lung transplantation for pulmonary hypertension.

Lung transplantation in the septuagenarian can be successfully performed though long-term results impacted by diseases of aging.

Electrical Impedance as a Noninvasive Metric of Quality in Allografts Undergoing Normothermic Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion.

Effect of hypothyroidism on contractile performance of isolated end-stage failing human myocardium.

Trends in Donation After Circulatory Death in Lung Transplantation in the United States: Impact Of Era.

The impact of perioperative stroke and delirium on outcomes after surgical aortic valve replacement.

Post-translational modification patterns on β-myosin heavy chain are altered in ischemic and nonischemic human hearts.

Impact of Temporary Preoperative Mechanical Support on Heart Transplant Outcomes.

Commentary: Can we get it right?

Quantification of Cardiac Adipose Tissue in Failing and Nonfailing Human Myocardium.

Donor and Recipient Hepatitis C Status Does Not Affect Rejection in Thoracic Transplantation.

Commentary: "Spinoplegia": A new solution for ischemic spinal cord injury?

Commentary: Organ ARCs: Assessment and repair centers in transplantation as gateways to meaningful therapeutic interventions.

Thoracic retransplantation: Does time to retransplantation matter?

Concomitant anaortic OPCAB and transfemoral TAVR for high-risk patients: A case series.

Engineering Solutions to Biologic Challenges Exemplified in Times of Crisis.

Ensuring pulmonary artery patency in donor-recipient size mismatch: A collaborative challenge.

Reply from authors: Pulmonary allograft artery size matters: Not just the length, but the width too!

Disparities in heart transplantation.

Safety of apixaban and rivaroxaban compared to warfarin after cardiac surgery.

Mechanical Dyssynchrony of Isolated Left and Right Ventricular Human Myocardium in End-Stage Heart Failure.

High-Resolution 3-Dimensional Multimodality Imaging to Resolve Intramural Human Sinoatrial Node Pacemakers and Epicardial-Endocardial Atrial Exit Sites.

Prevalence of Violence against Providers in Heart and Lung Transplant Programs.

Total artificial heart implantation: supportive care preparedness planning framework.

Textbook outcome: A novel metric in heart transplantation outcomes.

Commentary: It's not you, It's me.

Management of donor partial anomalous pulmonary veins during lung transplantation.

Biometric Profiling to Quantify Lung Injury Through Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion Following Warm Ischemia.

XPS™ Jensen lung as a low-cost, high-fidelity training adjunct to ex-vivo lung perfusion.

MG53 mitigates warm ischemic lung injury in a murine model of transplantation.

The role of CD38 in ischemia reperfusion injury in cardiopulmonary bypass and thoracic transplantation: a narrative review.

Monitored Anesthesia Care for Axillary Impella 5.5 Placement: A Feasible Option for Patients With Severe Cardiogenic Shock With Relative Contraindication to Intubation.

Long-Term Survival Following Primary Graft Dysfunction Development in Lung Transplantation.

Polymerized Human Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carrier Preserves Lung Allograft Function During Normothermic Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion.

Does Size Matter? The Effect of Size of Distal Perfusion Catheter on Acute Limb Ischemia: A Meta-Analysis.

Ex vivo lung perfusion in donation after circulatory death: A post hoc analysis of the Normothermic Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion as an Assessment of Extended/Marginal Donors Lungs trial.

Is Time Scheduling Important? An Analysis of Donor Heart Cross-clamp Times During Heart Transplantation.

Commentary: SWIFT-ly demonstrating benefits of minimally invasive cardiac surgery.

An Unexpected Partnership: Alexis Carrel, Charles Lindbergh, and Normothermic Machine Perfusion.

The Next Frontier in Lung Transplantation: Protecting the Endothelium and Repairing Organs for Transplant Utilizing MG53.

Early Extubation: Who Qualifies Postoperatively in Lung Transplantation?