Scholars@Duke
David Becerra

David Becerra

Provisional Faculty in the Department of Surgery
Trauma, Acute, and Critical Care Surgery
david.becerra@duke.edu
40 Duke Medicine Circle, Durham, NC 27710

Scholarly Works

Lung Transplantation After Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion Early Outcomes From a US National Registry.

Journal article Ann Surg · May 1, 2022 OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine early lung transplant outcomes following EVLP using a large national transplant registry. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Lung transplantation in the United States continues to be constrained by a limited s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Factors associated with short- versus long-term survival after lung transplant.

Journal article J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · March 2022 OBJECTIVE: A small but growing proportion of lung transplant recipients survive longer than a decade post-transplant. The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with survival beyond a decade after lung transplant. METHODS: We queried the Unit ... Full text Link to item Cite

Orthotopic Transplantation of Human Bioartificial Lung Grafts in a Porcine Model: A Feasibility Study.

Journal article Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · 2022 Lung transplantation is the only treatment for end-stage lung disease; however, donor organ shortage and intense immunosuppression limit its broad clinical impact. Bioengineering of lungs with patient-derived cells could overcome these problems. We created ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cardiac Allograft Tolerance Induction with Ox40L Costimulatory Blockade

Conference JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION · April 2021 Link to item Cite

The side of the primary tumor affects overall survival in colon adenocarcinoma: an analysis of the national cancer database.

Journal article Tech Coloproctol · June 2019 BACKGROUND: Due to conflicting study results on the effect of laterality on overall survival in primary colon cancers, we sought to examine the impact of left compared to right-sided primary tumors on overall survival for stage I-III colon cancer using the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Higher Use of Surgery Confers Superior Survival in Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Journal article Ann Thorac Surg · November 2018 BACKGROUND: Lobar resection is the gold standard therapy for medically fit patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, considerable variability exists in the use of surgical therapy. This study tested the hypothesis that center-based ... Full text Link to item Cite

Congenital Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: Encouraging Mid-term Outcome

Journal article Pediatric Cardiology · January 2016 Full text Cite

Does Pancreatic Stump Closure Method Influence Distal Pancreatectomy Outcomes?

Journal article Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery · August 2015 Full text Cite