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Excited to be at #ATS2024 !!! Lots of amazing presentations but I am particularly excited about the presentation of our VERITAS RCT results on Tuesday, May 21, 3:15 to 3:27 PDT in Room 29A-B. Has modern bronchoscopy finally caught up with CT-guided biopsy? Come and find out!

4 ways I feel interventional pulmonologists succumb to the hammer-nail mindset and demean ourselves 🛑Sampling nodules cause ‘we can’ 🛑Valves for everyone 🛑Treating imaging and not pts, with pleural dz 🛑Stenting airways that lead to no physiological gain AABIP WABIP

Primary vs secondary: A review of pneumothorax management mdedge.com/chestphysician…

Kaele M. Leonard, MD, and Robert J. Lentz, MD, join CHEST® Journal Podcast Moderator, Dominique Pepper, MD, to discuss whether a conservative diagnostic yield definition may represent a useful outcome for future studies of diagnostic utility. Listen now: hubs.la/Q02zxyG90

Thanks for having us! Great work by Kaele Leonard

The Pleural Disease Section reviews current guidelines from both CHEST and BTS for optimal management of primary spontaneous and secondary spontaneous pneumothorax. Read more: hubs.la/Q02BQHST0

Hands-on stations in full swing @ Duke Southeastern Bronchoscopy Course.

Hands-on stations in full swing @ Duke Southeastern Bronchoscopy Course.

Thanks to the wonderful faculty and participants @ Duke Southeastern Bronchoscopy Course 2024. Duke Pulm Fellows Duke Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care AABIP CHEST American Thoracic Society (ATS) WABIP

Count em - 7 gens of Vandy IP fellows & the folks who shaped us into the docs we are today. Missing in the pic: Jasleen Kaur Pannu 🫁 🇮🇳🇺🇸 (#AABIP2024 BOSS!), Fabien Maldonado 🇺🇸🇫🇷, & Jimmy Katsis. Otis B Rickman, DO Rob Lentz Ankush Ratwani, MD, MSc See-Wei Low @JennDukeMD Cristina Salmon Samira Shojaee @VUMCLung

Was really nice to catch up with friends and colleagues #AABIP2024 Amazing content and venue Great job @laurafrye Jasleen Kaur Pannu 🫁 🇮🇳🇺🇸 & Murgu Looking forward to Austin 14 to 16th 2025 carla lamb AABIP 🤠

Newly identified unilateral pleural effusion in a HOSPITALIZED patient - dyspnea is present. You favor this being an exudative effusion. What is your INITIAL drainage strategy if anechoic on the US? AABIP Fabien Maldonado 🇺🇸🇫🇷 David Feller-Kopman Udit Chaddha Abhinav Agrawal, MD

Congratulations, Fabien Maldonado 🇺🇸🇫🇷! Well deserved. And I still owe you for your great pleural disease lecture for our #CHESTworldcongress2021 CHEST #CHEST2024

#Simulation session in full force Amazing #Pleura #Bronchoscopy sessions with expert faculty 🌟 #CHEST2024 CHEST and small groups

Big shoutout to the Thoracic Oncology and Chest Procedure Network Leadership for setting an agenda in research for 2025. We are excited to participate! Also shoutout to Rob Lentz and Jeff Thiboutot for excellent presentations and to Jeff for being the Rising Star. Well deserved!

welcome to America.

#PLEURAL_PEARLS_WA 26 Sign of trapped lung if syringe recoils spontaneously. Don't underestimate pressure (est -250 cmH2O!)+pain manual pleural aspiration generates: PMID28638284 Alejandro TSANZ AABIP WABIP UK Pleural Society ARNS Interventional Pulmonary Outcomes Group The Royal College of Radiologists

Presented at #ATS2025: In the VERITAS trial, biopsy of indeterminate pulmonary lesions with navigational bronchoscopy was noninferior to that with transthoracic needle biopsy and led to fewer complications. Full trial results: nej.md/43uWPqY Editorial: Biopsy of

Thrilled to see VERITAS out in NEJM today. Nav bronch noninferior to transthoracic needle biopsy for lung nodules 10-30 mm. Nav bronch made an accurate diagnosis in 79% vs. 73% for TTNB, with pneumothorax requiring chest tube and/or hospitalization in 1% vs. 12%, respectively.

Big thanks to VERITAS champion Fabien Maldonado 🇺🇸🇫🇷 and our collaborators, including Virginia Planz, Tatsuki Koyama, Sameer Avasarala, Jon Casey, George Cheng, Pierre D'Haese, Jonathan Kurman, See-Wei Low, Kamran Mahmood, Otis B Rickman, DO, Cristina Salmon, Samira Shojaee, Momen Wahidi, MD, MBA, Najib M Rahman.