Episode 59: Rewarming Ischemia Time in Lung Transplantation

On this episode of JHLT: The Podcast, the Digital Media Editors invite lead author Jan Van Slambrouck, MD, to discuss the paper, “The effect of rewarming ischemia on tissue transcriptome and metabolome signatures: A clinical observational study in lung transplantation.”

Dr. Van Slambrouck is a general surgeon who’s just finished his PhD training at the KU Leuven lab of respiratory disease and thoracic surgery in Belgium.

The episode explores: 

• How rewarming ischemia time (RIT) affects donor lungs, especially on the molecular level
• The pace of rewarming and how prior literature prepared the team to track and evaluate it
• Clinical strategies to reduce RIT and directly address molecular changes

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Those involved in the pulmonary vascular disease space should tune in again later this month for a study on the safety and efficacy of riociguat in patients with PAH.

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