September 2025 Journal Watch

Published 29 September 2025

• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Early Career
• Journal Watch

The September 2025 Journal Watch explores topics in cardiothoracic surgery. Issue editor Kevin Koomalsingh, MD, gathers topics including:

• Lung transplant in patients with suspicious lung lesions
• The five-year experience of DCD heart transplantation
• Association of agonal phase duration with heart utilization and post-transplant outcomes in DCD heart transplantation
• Pig-to-human lung xenotransplantation into a brain-dead recipient

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Issue Junior Editor: 

Contributors:

Ram Duvuru, MD

Auckland City Hospital
Auckland, NZ

 

Katharina Fetten, MD

Baylor Scott and White Health
Dallas, TX USA

 

Daniel Laskey, MD

Mount Sinai Health System
New York, NY USA

 

Anna Niroomand, MD, PhD

NYU Langone
New York, NY USA

 

Journal Watch Senior Editor

Ross Thomson, BA, BMBCh, MRCP

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