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Thomas K. Waddell

Thomas K. Waddell

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Medicine

D-Index
92
Citations
27435
World Ranking
11416
National Ranking
459

Overview

Thomas K. Waddell is affiliated with the University Health Network in Canada. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focused specialization in Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology, Biomedical Engineering, and Transplantation.

Their work often covers topics related to transplantation, including methods and outcomes, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, lung cancer diagnosis and treatment, cancer genomics and diagnostics, renal transplantation outcomes and treatments, and biomedical applications of electrospun nanofibers.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Shaf Keshavjee, Marcelo Cypel, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Laura Donahoe, and Marc de Perrot.

Waddell has contributed numerous papers to various journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Efficacy of Reduced-Intensity Chemotherapy With Oxaliplatin and Capecitabine on Quality of Life and Cancer Control Among Older and Frail Patients With Advanced Gastroesophageal Cancer (2021, JAMA Oncology)
  • Static lung storage at 10°C maintains mitochondrial health and preserves donor organ function (2021, Science Translational Medicine)
  • Short-course, direct-acting antivirals and ezetimibe to prevent HCV infection in recipients of organs from HCV-infected donors: a phase 3, single-centre, open-label study (2020, The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology)
  • Ex vivo enzymatic treatment converts blood type A donor lungs into universal blood type lungs (2022, Science Translational Medicine)
  • Solid phase microextraction chemical biopsy tool for monitoring of doxorubicin residue during in vivo lung chemo-perfusion (2020, Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis)

Waddell has frequently published in several journals, notably:

  • The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
  • Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Normothermic Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion in Clinical Lung Transplantation

    Marcelo Cypel;Jonathan C. Yeung;Mingyao Liu;Masaki Anraku

  • Ischemia-reperfusion-induced lung injury.

    Marc de Perrot;Mingyao Liu;Thomas K. Waddell;Shaf Keshavjee

  • A prospective controlled trial of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration compared with mediastinoscopy for mediastinal lymph node staging of lung cancer

    Kazuhiro Yasufuku;Andrew Pierre;Gail Darling;Marc de Perrot

  • Technique for prolonged normothermic ex vivo lung perfusion.

    Marcelo Cypel;Jonathan C. Yeung;Shin Hirayama;Matthew Rubacha

  • Restrictive allograft syndrome (RAS): a novel form of chronic lung allograft dysfunction.

    Masaaki Sato;Thomas K. Waddell;Ute Wagnetz;Heidi C. Roberts

  • Bile acid aspiration and the development of bronchiolitis obliterans after lung transplantation.

    Frank D’Ovidio;Marco Mura;Melanie Tsang;Thomas K. Waddell

  • Functional Repair of Human Donor Lungs by IL-10 Gene Therapy

    Marcelo Cypel;Marcelo Cypel;Mingyao Liu;Mingyao Liu;Matt Rubacha;Jonathan C. Yeung;Jonathan C. Yeung

  • Experience with the first 50 ex vivo lung perfusions in clinical transplantation.

    Marcelo Cypel;Jonathan C. Yeung;Tiago Machuca;Manyin Chen

  • Interleukin-8 release during early reperfusion predicts graft function in human lung transplantation.

    Marc De Perrot;Yasuo Sekine;Stefan Fischer;Thomas K. Waddell

  • 2014 AATS guidelines for the prevention and management of perioperative atrial fibrillation and flutter for thoracic surgical procedures

    Gyorgy Frendl;Alissa C. Sodickson;Mina K. Chung;Albert L. Waldo

  • Normothermic Ex Vivo Perfusion Prevents Lung Injury Compared to Extended Cold Preservation for Transplantation

    M Cypel;M Rubacha;J Yeung;S Hirayama

  • Three-Gene Prognostic Classifier for Early-Stage Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

    Suzanne K. Lau;Paul C. Boutros;Melania Pintilie;Fiona H. Blackhall

  • Tumor-Initiating Cells Are Rare in Many Human Tumors

    Kota Ishizawa;Zeshaan A. Rasheed;Robert Karisch;Qiuju Wang

  • Marginal donor lungs: a reassessment.

    Andrew F. Pierre;Yasuo Sekine;Michael A. Hutcheon;Thomas K. Waddell

  • Signaling Functions of L-selectin ENHANCEMENT OF TYROSINE PHOSPHORYLATION AND ACTIVATION OF MAP KINASE

    Thomas K. Waddell;Lea Fialkow;Chi Kin Chan;Takashi Kei Kishimoto

  • Restrictive allograft syndrome post lung transplantation is characterized by pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis

    Efrat Ofek;Masaaki Sato;Masaaki Sato;Tomohito Saito;Ute Wagnetz

  • Outcomes of intraoperative extracorporeal membrane oxygenation versus cardiopulmonary bypass for lung transplantation

    Tiago N. Machuca;Stephane Collaud;Olaf Mercier;Maureen Cheung

  • Potentiation of the oxidative burst of human neutrophils. A signaling role for L-selectin.

    T. K. Waddell;L. Fialkow;Chi Kin Chan;T. K. Kishimoto

  • Prevalence of Gastroesophageal Reflux in End-Stage Lung Disease Candidates for Lung Transplant

    Frank D’Ovidio;Lianne G. Singer;Denis Hadjiliadis;Andrew Pierre

  • BOS UPDATE Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome 2001: An Update of the Diagnostic Criteria

    Marc Estenne;Janet R. Maurer;Annette Boehler;James J. Egan

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaf Keshavjee
Shaf Keshavjee University Health Network
Mingyao Liu
Mingyao Liu University Health Network
Marc de Perrot
Marc de Perrot University of Toronto
John Granton
John Granton University of Toronto
Ming-Sound Tsao
Ming-Sound Tsao Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Natasha B. Leighl
Natasha B. Leighl Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Frances A. Shepherd
Frances A. Shepherd Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Gregory P. Downey
Gregory P. Downey National Jewish Health
Arthur S. Slutsky
Arthur S. Slutsky University of Toronto
Andrea Bezjak
Andrea Bezjak Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

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