Journal Series


Newest Journal  

Journal 57:
Survival benefit of endobronchial valves: Is it just mechanical?

Author: Stephanie Hampton
Reviewer: Abesh Niroula & John Egan
Posted: December 2024  


Journal 56:
Randomizing patients to surgical versus non-surgical management of pleural infections, can it be done?

AuthorAdali Martinez, MD, MPH
Reviewer: Yaron B Gesthalter, MD & Christian Ghattas, MD
Posted: November 2024  


Journal 55:
A needle in the haystack - looking for occult N2 disease. What is the diagnostic performance of EBUS-TBNA for mediastinal staging of centrally located T1N0M0 NSCLC clinical staged with PET/CT

Author: Shashvat Sukhal
Reviewer: Jaskaran Sethi & Sameer K. Avasarala
Posted: October 2024  


Journal 54:
Simple Aspiration versus Large Bore Chest-Tube Drainage for Complete Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax: Is the Chest Tube Necessary?

Reviewers: Kai Swenson, Christopher Bosma & Yu Maw Htwe
Posted: September 2024  


 Journal 53:
Transbronchial Needle Aspiration Combined With Cryobiopsy in the Diagnosis of Mediastinal Diseases

Reviewers: Abesh Niroula & Sameer Avasarala
Posted: August 2024 


 Journal 52:
Is it Truly Negative? The Effect of Definitions and Cancer Prevalence on Diagnostic Yield Estimates of Bronchoscopy

Author: Pallavi Sharma
Reviewers: 
Max Wayne & Jaskaran Sethi
Posted: July 2024 


 Journal 51:
Therapeutic Rigid Bronchoscopy Improves Functional Status and Systemic Treatment Eligibility of Patients with Malignant Central Airway Obstruction

Author: Cliff Chen DO
Reviewers: 
Abhishek Kumar MD & Jose De Cardenas MD
Posted: June 2024 
Journal 50:

Adding Molecular Testing to the Menu of Pleural Disease

Author: Julieta Osella MD
Reviewers: Sameer Avasarala MD & Jaskaran Sethi MD MS
Posted: May 2024 
Journal 49:

Aiming low: Can minimizing fraction of inspired oxygen during endobronchial valve placement reduce postprocedural pneumothorax?

Author: Rachel Genova
Reviewers: Max Wayne & Kai Swenson
Posted: April 2024 
Journal 48:

Tunneling Through Recurrent Effusions: Indwelling Pleural Catheter’s Safety and Utility in Lung Transplant Recipients

Author: Steven Wu
Reviewers: Yaron B. Gesthalter & Abesh Niroula
Posted: March 2024
Journal 47:

Lobar or Sublobar Resection, That is the Question

Author: Tejas Sinha
Reviewers: Christian Ghattas & John P. Egan III
Posted: February 2024
Journal 46:

ADAPT-ing the tPA dose for pleural infection: How low can we go?

Author: Max Nagle
Reviewers: Kai Swenson & Max Wayne
Posted: January 2024

Journal: 45

Shape Sensing Robotic Bronchoscopy versus Digital Tomosynthesis-Corrected Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy: A Battle for Superiority

Author: Abraham Arhin
Reviewers: Samir Avasarala & Jose DeCardenas
Posted: December 2023

Journal: 44

Author: Jacqueline Choa
Reviewers: Abhishek Kumar & Christian Ghattas
Posted: November 2023
Journal: 43

Author: Muhammad Ibrar Islam
Reviewers: Sameer Avasarala & Yaron Gesthalter
Posted: October 2023
Journal: 42

The visceral response to thoracentesis: Predicting pleural opposition after thoracentesis with terminal pleural manometry

Author: Michael DiRico
Reviewers: Van Holden & John Egan
Posted: September 2023

Journal: 41

Effect of Endobronchial Valves on Hypercapnia

Author: Brandt Lydon
Reviewers: Max Wayne & Jose De Cardenas
Posted: August 2023
Journal: 40

AMPLE (2) Activity: Does drainage schedule impact activity in patients with indwelling pleural catheters for malignant pleural effusions?

Author: Ilana Roberts Krumm
Reviewers: Yaron B. Geshthalter & Jaskaran Sethi
Posted: July 2023
Journal: 39

Does autologous blood patch pleurodesis (ABPP) have higher success rates in air leak closure than doxycycline pleurodesis in patients with secondary spontaneous pneumothorax (SSP) with persistent air leak?

Author: Stephanie Hampton
Reviewers: Abesh Niroula & Abhishek Kumar
Posted: June 2023

Journal: 38

Tolerating the procedure well: bronchoscopy using patient-controlled sedation with propofol

Author: Megan Opatrny
Reviewers: Max Wayne, MD & Sameer Kaushik Avasarala
Posted: May 2023
Journal: 37

Intrapleural Fibrinolytic and Enzyme Therapy: Is the benefit worth the bleed?

Author: Jose Antony Paul
Reviewers: Jaskaran Sethi & John Egan
Posted: April 2023
Journal: 36

Could a specific ventilatory protocol reduce atelectasis during peripheral bronchoscopy?

Author: Kamel Gharaibeh
Reviewer: Van Holden
Posted March 2023

Journal: 35

Dual agent intrapleural fibrinolytic therapy (IPFT) for complicated pleural space infections (CPSI), does it compare to surgery?

Author: Damarys Hernandez
Reviewers: Sameer Avasarala & Jose De Cardenas
Posted: February 2023
Journal: 34

Confirmatory Mediastinoscopy after Negative Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration

Author: Stephen Russell
Reviewers: Abesh Niroula & Abhishek Kumar
Posted: January 2023
Journal: 33
Journal: 32

Probability of lung cancer in patients with incidentally detected pulmonary nodules

Author: Abesh Niroula
Reviewers: John Egan & Sisir Akinenni
Posted November 2022

Journal: 31
Author: Siddharthan Vaithilingam
Reviewers: Christian Ghattas & Abhishek Kumar
Posted October 2022
Journal: 30

More than meets the culture: Using next generation sequencing to understand the bacteriology of pleural infection.

Author: Jeff Chambers
Reviewers: Sameer Avasarala & Jaskaran Sethi
Posted August 2022
Journal: 29

Tracheostomy Timing and ICU Utilization: Means of Liberation or Marker of Dependence?

Author: John Howe
Reviewers: Jaskaran Sethi & Jose DeCardenas
Posted July 2022
Journal: 28

Can the right pathway come at the correct cost?

Author: Ankish Ratwani
Reviewers: See Wei Low & Shalini Mehta
Posted June 2022
Journal: 27

Small-bore pigtail catheters (PC) are as effective as large-bore surgical chest tubes (ST)in patients with traumatic hemothorax (HTX) and hemopneumothorax (HPTX)

Author: Momen Banifadel
Reviewers: Sameer Avasarala & Jose De Cardenas
Posted May 2022
Journal: 26
EBUS-TBNA of the contralateral PET negative hilar N3 lymph node: Is the juice worth the squeeze?
Author: Huzaifah Salat
Reviewers: Shalini Mehta & Van Holden
Posted: April 2022

Journal: 25

Check and correct? Assessing the safety of thoracentesis or tube thoracostomy for patients with uncorrected bleeding tendencies

Author: Judd Heideman
Reviewers: See Wei Low & Shalini Mehta
Posted: March 2022

Journal: 24

Shape-Sensing Robotic-Assisted Bronchoscopy in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Parenchymal Lesions

Author: Fahid Alghanim
Reviewers: See Wei Low & Sameer Avasarala
Posted: February 2022
Journal: 23

Randomized trial of indwelling pleural catheters for refractory transudative pleural effusions – REDUCE study

Author: Kayla Kolbe
Reviewers: Van Holden and Jose De Cardenas
Posted: January 2022

Journal: 22

To Cryo or not to Cryo: Poor Concordance between Sequential Transbronchial Lung Cryobiopsy and Surgical Lung Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Diffuse Interstitial Lung Diseases 

Reviewer: Mohanad Saleh
Editors: Van Holden & Coral Giovacchini
Posted: December 2021

Journal: 21 
Topical mitomycin-C (MMC) in the treatment of laryngotracheal stenosis (LTS)
Reviewer: Karthik Vijayan
Editors: Alex Chee and Christian Ghattas
Posted: November 2021

Journal: 20
What is the efficacy of MMC in the treatment of laryngotracheal stenosis?

Reviewer: Karthik Vijayan
Editors: Alex Chee and Christian Ghattas
Posted: April 2021

Journal: 19
Reviewer: Mark Godfrey
Editors: Van Holden and Coral Giovacchini
Posted: January 2021

Journal: 17

The Impact of Gravity vs Suction-driven Therapeutic Thoracentesis on Pressure-related Complications

Reviewer: Chrystal Chan
Editors:  Alex Chee and Christian Ghattas
Posted: December 2020

Journal: 16
Editors: Van Holden & Vivek Murthy
Posted: November 2020

Journal: 15
Editors: Abdul Hamid Alraiyes & Jasleen Pannu
Posted: October 2020

Journal: 14 
Editors: Christian Ghattas & Jose De Cardenas
Posted: August 2020 

Reviewer: Sameer Avasarala
Editors: Christian Ghattas & Jasleen Pannu
Posted: June 2020

Journal: 10
Editors: Jose De Cardenas & Majid Shafiq
Posted: February 2020

Reviewer: Jose De Cardenas
Editors: Van Holden & Abdul Hamid Alraiyes
Posted: December 2019
Journal: 7
Editors: Christian Ghattas & Vivek Murthy
Posted: October 2019

Journal: 5
Reviewer: George Cheng
Editors: Alex Chee & Jasleen Pannu
Posted: September 2019

Journal: 4
Reviewer: Alex Chee
Editors: George Cheng & Abdul Hamid Alraiyes
Posted: August 2019

Journal: 3
Reviewer: Jasleen Pannu
Editors: Vivek Murth & Abdul Hamid Alraiyes
Posted: July 2019

Journal: 2
Reviewer: Vivek Murthy
Editors: Christian Ghattas & George Cheng
Posted: June 2019

Journal: 1
Reviewer: Christian Ghattas
Editors: Alex Chee & Jasleen Pannu
Posted: May 2019

Christian Ghattas

JOURNAL CLUB CHIEF EDITOR

Christian Ghattas, MD
The Ohio State University