Jessica G.Y. Luc

Published in:Pediatric Transplantation
Publication date:2015-12-23

Despite the rise in the number of adult lung transplantations performed, rates of pediatric lung transplantation remain low. Lung transplantation i...

Published in:Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development
Publication date:2016-05-01

Our article defines active learning in the context of surgical education and reviews the growing body of research on new approaches to teaching. We...

Published in:Transplantation Journal
Publication date:2015-01-01

We report the use of the Transmedics Lung Organ Care System (OCS) to lyse pulmonary embolus from a set of donation after circulatory death (DCD) lu...

Published in:Canadian Respiratory Journal
Publication date:2015-01-01

Background: Donation after circulatory death is a novel method of increasing the number of donor lungs available for transplantation. Using organs...

Published in:Transplantation Proceedings
Publication date:2015-07-01

Background: 2-Methoxyestradiol (2ME2) is an endogenous metabolite of estrogen that is nonestrogenic and has been studied in cancer as an antimitoti...

Published in:Canadian Journal of Cardiology
Publication date:2014-10-01

Gender differences are seen in many disease processes. There is a growing awareness for gender-specific hormonal regulation of immunomodulatory rol...

Published in:The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Publication date:2014-04-01

Gender differences are seen in many disease processes. There is a growing awareness for gender-specific hormonal regulation of immunomodulatory rol...

Published in:Canadian Journal of Cardiology
Publication date:2015-10-01

Octogenarians represent an increasing proportion of cardiac surgical candidates. Despite the availability of different risk-scoring algorithms, the...

Published in:The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Publication date:2016-04-01

Lung transplantation is limited by a shortage of donor lungs. Normothermic ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) has emerged as a technology for a...

Published in:The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Publication date:2016-09-01

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) by valve-in-valve (VIV) implantation is an alternative treatment for high-risk patients with a degene...

Published in:Journal of Thoracic Disease
Publication date:2016-09-01

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most prevalent cardiac arrhythmia in modern clinical practice, with an estimated prevalence of 1.5–2%. The prevalen...

Published in:ASAIO Journal
Publication date:2016-01-01

There is a large population of patients with end-stage congestive heart failure who cannot be treated by means of conventional cardiac surgery, car...

Published in:ASAIO Journal
Publication date:2016-11-01

There is increasing evidence for successful management of end-stage heart failure with continuous-flow left ventricular assist device (CF-LVAD) tec...

Published in:MedEdPORTAL Publications
Publication date:2016-01-01

The acquisition of specialty-specific seminal literature and its application to daily, clinical patient-care decisions are critical components of c...

Published in:ASAIO Journal
Publication date:2016-12-01

With increasing use of left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) for long-term circulatory support comes a growing need for device exchange. The conve...

Published in:Canadian Journal of Cardiology
Publication date:2017-05-01

Published in:ASAIO Journal
Publication date:2017-02-01

Published in:Annals of Emergency Medicine
Publication date:2017-03-01