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Rockin' my lungs.

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Ain't gonna stop.

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We've got an incredible case report of a patient with a massive carinal right-sided tumour.

They took the whole right lung out, they chopped it to bits and they put in the basal quad segment of the right lower lobe back, auto-transplanted it into that patient.

We've got a type A aortic dissection that looked like it also caused an intramural hematoma of the pulmonary artery.

And we've got some STS database analysis of what causes akylothorax.

They used a ligature to take some of the side branches.

They also used a harmonic as well.

I'm not sure they used any CO2 because they didn't know there was much space in the chest particularly, and the lung looked pretty inflated, but they did manage to battle their way to get that reamer down.

So it shows you don't necessarily need a robot for it.

We've got real-world outcomes if you take away fluoroscopy from doing a mitral tear, so just use TOE.

We've got adding a CT scan for predictive scores of lung transplants, donor suitability, and we've got an amazing story about a robot that can take blood.

We've got three videos for you as well, mitral valve repair after a badly placed mitral clip.

We've got a video from me, how I took out a 10 centimeter anterior mediastinal mass, still minimally invasively, and a modified track door for reimplantation of al capa.

And maybe that means just surgeons could do it.

That would be interesting, wouldn't it? But yeah, I thought that was a great study from China.

Our fourth paper is just looking at how we can expand donor lung acceptability, especially in brain-dead donors, because the acceptance rate's pretty low.

So Varun Puri, from St. Louis and Yuzhan Bai from Washington have published in JTCVS an article basically saying if you take the validated lung donor score, the London score, and actually add CT rather than chest x-ray into the variables that predict whether you can take the lungs, can you do better? So this London score has nine variables on it.