Vol 8, No 3 (March 18, 2016) - Journal of Thoracic Disease

Yonghua Chen, Chunli Liu, Wenju Lu, Mengxi Li, Cyrus Hadadi, Elizabeth Wenqian Wang, Kai Yang, Ning Lai, Junyi Huang, Shiyue Li, Nanshan Zhong, Nuofu Zhang, Jian Wang

PDF Pages: 350-358 Full Text (4189) Open Access

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery segmentectomy by non-intubated or intubated anesthesia: a comparative analysis of short-term outcome

Zhihua Guo, Weiqiang Yin, Hui Pan, Xin Zhang, Xin Xu, Wenlong Shao, Hanzhang Chen, Jianxing He

PDF Pages: 359-368 Full Text (3700) Open Access

Tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) can predict the outcome of isolated tricuspid valve surgery in patients with previous cardiac surgery?

Xiaoning Sun, Hongqiang Zhang, Baier Aike, Shouguo Yang, Zhaohua Yang, Lili Dong, Fanshun Wang, Chunsheng Wang

PDF Pages: 369-374 Full Text (6148) Open Access

Detection of occult tumor cells in regional lymph nodes is associated with poor survival in pN₀ non-small cell lung cancer: a meta-analysis

Zhicheng He, Yang Xia, Shaowen Tang, Yijiang Chen, Liang Chen

PDF Pages: 375-385 Full Text (3760) Open Access

Molecular genetic alterations in egfr CA-SSR-1 microsatellite and egfr copy number changes are associated with aggressiveness in thymoma

Salvatore Conti, Enzo Gallo, Stefano Sioletic, Francesco Facciolo, Giovannella Palmieri, Libero Lauriola, Amelia Evoli, Robert Martucci, Anna Di Benedetto, Flavia Novelli, Diana Giannarelli, Gloria Deriu, Pierluigi Granone, Margaret Ottaviano, Paola Muti, Edoardo Pescarmona, Mirella Marino

PDF Pages: 386-395 Full Text (4478) Open Access

The usefulness of Wi-Fi based digital chest drainage system in the post-operative care of pneumothorax

Hyun Min Cho, Yoon Joo Hong, Chun Sung Byun, Jung Joo Hwang

PDF Pages: 396-402 Full Text (4111) Open Access

Analysis of plasma microRNA expression profiles in a Chinese population occupationally exposed to benzene and in a population with chronic benzene poisoning

Yang Liu, Xianwen Chen, Qian Bian, Yuan Shi, Qingdong Liu, Lu Ding, Hengdong Zhang, Baoli Zhu

PDF Pages: 403-414 Full Text (4601) Open Access

Mediastinal micro-vessels clipping during lymph node dissection may contribute to reduce postoperative pleural drainage

Shi Yan, Xing Wang, Chao Lv, Kevin Phan, Yuzhao Wang, Jia Wang, Yue Yang, Nan Wu

PDF Pages: 415-421 Full Text (3482) Open Access

Prevalence of hypertension and noise-induced hearing loss in Chinese coal miners

Jing Liu, Ming Xu, Lu Ding, Hengdong Zhang, Liping Pan, Qingdong Liu, Enming Ding, Qiuni Zhao, Boshen Wang, Lei Han, Dandan Yang, Baoli Zhu

PDF Pages: 422-429 Full Text (5685) Open Access

PON2 and ATP2B2 gene polymorphisms with noise-induced hearing loss

Xiuting Li, Jinglian Cao, Jun Wang, Haiyan Song, Guixiang Ji, Qiu Dong, Chunlong Wei, Ying Cao, Boshen Wang, Baoli Zhu, Hang Xiao

PDF Pages: 430-438 Full Text (4174) Open Access

Proteomic profiling differences in serum from silicosis and chronic bronchitis patients: a comparative analysis

Rongming Miao, Bangmei Ding, Yingyi Zhang, Qian Xia, Yong Li, Baoli Zhu

PDF Pages: 439-450 Full Text (3664) Open Access

A phase I dose escalation study of S-1 with concurrent radiotherapy in elderly patients with esophageal cancer

Yongling Ji, Guoqing Qiu, Liming Sheng, Xiaojiang Sun, Yuanda Zheng, Ming Chen, Xianghui Du

PDF Pages: 451-458 Full Text (3760) Open Access

Robot-assisted coronary artery bypass grafting improves short-term outcomes compared with minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting

Wenhui Gong, Junfeng Cai, Zhe Wang, Anqing Chen, Xiaofeng Ye, Haiqing Li, Qiang Zhao

PDF Pages: 459-468 Full Text (4394) Open Access

Single-stage bilateral pulmonary resections by video-assisted thoracic surgery for multiple small nodules

Feng Yao, Haitang Yang, Heng Zhao

PDF Pages: 469-475 Full Text (3328) Open Access

Vessel heterogeneity of TIMI frame count and its relation to P-wave dispersion in patients with coronary slow flow

Xiaodong Zhuang, You Peng, Adham Sameer A. Bardeesi, Ekhlas Samir A. Bardisi, Xinxue Liao, Chufan Luo

PDF Pages: 476-481 Full Text (3275) Open Access

Impact of correcting the lymphocyte count to improve the sensitivity of TB antigen-specific peripheral blood-based quantitative T cell assays (T-SPOT.^®TB and QFT-GIT)

Richard N. van Zyl-Smit, Rannakoe J. Lehloenya, Richard Meldau, Keertan Dheda

PDF Pages: 482-489 Full Text (4955) Open Access

Chest wall stabilization and reconstruction: short and long-term results 5 years after the introduction of a new titanium plates system

Angela De Palma, Francesco Sollitto, Domenico Loizzi, Francesco Di Gennaro, Daniele Scarascia, Annalisa Carlucci, Giuseppe Giudice, Andrea Armenio, Rossana Ludovico, Michele Loizzi

PDF Pages: 490-498 Full Text (7321) Open Access

Subcostal thoracoscopic extended thymectomy for patients with myasthenia gravis

Yong Tang, Zhu-An Ou, Ming Liao, Yiwen Xuan, Kai Su, En-Wu Xu, Haiping Xiao, Xiufan Peng, Zhuohua Zhang, Yan Liu, Gui-Bin Qiao

PDF Pages: 499-504 Full Text (Video) (3022) Open Access

Impact of viral infection on acute exacerbation of asthma in out-patient clinics: a prospective study

Hua Liao, Zifeng Yang, Chunguang Yang, Yan Tang, Shengming Liu, Wenda Guan, Rongchang Chen

PDF Pages: 505-512 Full Text (5588) Open Access

Reference values for resistance and compliance based on the single occlusion technique in healthy infants from Southeast China

Jianfeng Huang, Hao Zhang, Mingzhi Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang, Libo Wang

PDF Pages: 513-519 Full Text (5044) Open Access

The optimal sequence for bronchial brushing and forceps biopsy in lung cancer diagnosis: a random control study

Gang Hou, Yuan Miao, Xue-Jun Hu, Wei Wang, Qiu-Yue Wang, Guang-Ping Wu, En-Hua Wang, Jian Kang

PDF Pages: 520-526 Full Text (3010) Open Access

Impact of attenuated plaques on TIMI grade flow and clinical outcomes of coronary artery disease patients: a systematic review and meta analysis

Ruofei Jia, Xiaolu Nie, Hong Li, Huagang Zhu, Lianmei Pu, Xiang Li, Jing Han, Duo Yang, Shuai Meng, Zening Jin

PDF Pages: 527-536 Full Text (5062) Open Access

Surgical Technique

Rejejunostomy under local anesthesia for patients with esophageal carcinoma

Peng Ye, Liping Zeng, Fenghao Sun, Jian Hu

PDF Pages: 537-539 Full Text (Video) (3701) Open Access

Subxiphoid uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic middle lobectomy and anterior anatomic segmentectomy (S3)

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Yang Yang, Jiang Lei, Luis Hernandez, Gening Jiang

PDF Pages: 540-543 Full Text (Video) (3515) Open Access

Video-assisted thoracoscopic bronchoplasty/pulmonary arterial angioplasty

Xin Xu, Jun Huang, Hui Pan, Hanzhang Chen, Jianxing He

PDF Pages: 544-552 Full Text (Video) (2858) Open Access

Complete video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) bronchial sleeve lobectomy

Jun Huang, Shuben Li, Zhexue Hao, Hanzhang Chen, Jiaxi He, Xin Xu, Yuan Qiu, Qinglong Dong, Lixia Liang, Hui Pan, Jianxing He

PDF Pages: 553-574 Full Text (Video) (5307) Open Access

Video-assisted transthoracic surgery resection of a tracheal mass and reconstruction of trachea under non-intubated anesthesia with spontaneous breathing

Shuben Li, Jun Liu, Jiaxi He, Qinglong Dong, Lixia Liang, Fei Cui, Hui Pan, Jianxing He

PDF Pages: 575-585 Full Text (Video) (3425) Open Access

Non-intubated combined with video-assisted thoracoscopic in carinal reconstruction

Guilin Peng, Fei Cui, Keng Leong Ang, Xin Zhang, Weiqiang Yin, Wenlong Shao, Qinglong Dong, Lixia Liang, Jianxing He

PDF Pages: 586-593 Full Text (Video) (4225) Open Access

Non-intubated resection and reconstruction of trachea for the treatment of a mass in the upper trachea

Jun Liu, Shuben Li, Jianfei Shen, Qinglong Dong, Lixia Liang, Hui Pan, Jianxing He

PDF Pages: 594-599 Full Text (3917) Open Access

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery resection and reconstruction of thoracic trachea in the management of a tracheal neoplasm

Shuben Li, Jun Liu, Jiaxi He, Qinglong Dong, Lixia Liang, Weiqiang Yin, Hui Pan, Jianxing He

PDF Pages: 600-607 Full Text (Video) (3279) Open Access

Glasses-free three-dimensional endoscopic bronchoplasty, arterioplasty, and angioplasty of the superior vena cava for the radical treatment of right middle upper lung cancer

Wenlong Shao, Weiqiang Yin, Wei Wang, Xin Zhang, Guilin Peng, Xuewei Chen, Lili Mo, Jianxing He

PDF Pages: 608-611 Full Text (Video) (3140) Open Access

Resection of the sidewall of superior vena cava using video-assisted thoracic surgery mechanical suture technique

Xin Xu, Yuan Qiu, Hui Pan, Lili Mo, Hanzhang Chen, Jianxing He

PDF Pages: 612-616 Full Text (Video) (2445) Open Access

Pulmonary arterioplasty using video-assisted thoracic surgery mechanical suture technique

Xin Xu, Jun Huang, Weiqiang Yin, Xin Zhang, Hanzhang Chen, Lili Mo, Jianxing He

PDF Pages: 617-627 Full Text (Video) (3581) Open Access

GCTAB Column¹

Video-assisted thoracoscopic segmentectomy of lingual segment of the left upper pulmonary lobe for chronic focal bronchiectasis

Xue Pan, Yan Zhang, Xiangnan Li, Zheng Ding, Dengyan Zhu, Chunyang Zhang, Jia Zhao

PDF Pages: 628-630 Full Text (Video) (2439) Open Access

Cough Column²

Introduction to JTD Cough Section

Peter Dicpinigaitis

PDF Pages: 631 Full Text (2565) Open Access

Dysphagia, dystussia, and aspiration pneumonia in elderly people

Satoru Ebihara, Hideki Sekiya, Midori Miyagi, Takae Ebihara, Tatsuma Okazaki

PDF Pages: 632-639 Full Text (22929) Open Access

Review Article

Corticosteroids in the adjunctive therapy of community-acquired pneumonia: an appraisal of recent meta-analyses of clinical trials

Charles Feldman, Ronald Anderson

PDF Pages: E162-E171 Full Text (11376) Open Access

Personalizing mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory distress syndrome

S. Clark Berngard, Jeremy R. Beitler, Atul Malhotra

PDF Pages: E172-E174 Full Text (6065) Open Access

Management of large mediastinal masses: surgical and anesthesiological considerations

Wilson W.L. Li, Wim Jan P. van Boven, Jouke T. Annema, Susanne Eberl, Houke M. Klomp, Bas A.J.M. de Mol

PDF Pages: E175-E184 Full Text (9950) Open Access

Lung transplantation at Duke

Alice L. Gray, Michael S. Mulvihill, Matthew G. Hartwig

PDF Pages: E185-E196 Full Text (5459) Open Access

Commentary

Remote preconditioning and cardiac surgery: regrouping after Remote Ischemic Preconditioning for Heart Surgery (RIPHeart) and Effect of Remote Ischemic Preconditioning on Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (ERICCA)

Cherry X. Cheung, Donagh A. Healy, Stewart R. Walsh

PDF Pages: E197-E199 Full Text (3586) Open Access

Tumor heterogeneity on ¹⁸F-FDG-PET/CT for response monitoring in non-small cell lung cancer treated with erlotinib

Matthijs H. van Gool, Tjeerd S. Aukema, Michiel Sinaasappel, Renato A. Valdés Olmos, Houke M. Klomp

PDF Pages: E200-E203 Full Text (3064) Open Access

Imaging how and where we breathe oxygen: another Big Short?

Dante P. I. Capaldi, Fumin Guo, Grace Parraga

PDF Pages: E204-E207 Full Text (2588) Open Access

Perspective

Non-invasive ventilation in immunocompromised patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure

Lorenzo Del Sorbo, Angela Jerath, Martin Dres, Matteo Parotto

PDF Pages: E208-E216 Full Text (4929) Open Access

Research Highlight

Afatinib in first-line setting for NSCLC harbouring common EGFR mutations: new light after the preliminary results of LUX-Lung 7?

Antonio Passaro, Alessia Pochesci, Gianluca Spitaleri, Chiara Catania, Cristina Noberasco, Ester Del Signore, Filippo de Marinis

PDF Pages: E217-E220 Full Text (4385) Open Access

Correspondence

Reflection on the 1st ESTS-AME prize—the experience of one month clinical fellowship in the 1st Affiliated Hospital of the Medical University of Guangzhou

Lieven Depypere

PDF Pages: E221-E224 Full Text (3376) Open Access

Letter to the Editor

Tricuspid valve chordae tendineae as protective filter to prevent massive pulmonary embolism

Hiroyuki Watanabe, Mai Shimbo, Mai Terada, Hironori Kiso, Seiya Shimizu, Yasunori Oguma, Kenji Iino, Hiroshi Ito

PDF Pages: E225-E228 Full Text (Video) (2991) Open Access

Tracheal nodular lymphoid hyperplasia presenting dyspnea and obstructive sleep apnea

Lijuan Song, Yingshen Lu, Wenjin Liao, Nanshan Zhong, Jianxing He, Xiaowen Zhang

PDF Pages: E229-E231 Full Text (2806) Open Access

Case Report

Long-term complications after surgical correction of Laubry-Pezzi syndrome

Marc Sbizzera, Matteo Pozzi, Benoit Cosset, Catherine Koffel, Jean François Obadia, Jacques Robin

PDF Pages: E232-E234 Full Text (3102) Open Access

Spontaneous regression in advanced squamous cell lung carcinoma

Yeon Hee Park, Bo Mi Park, Se Yeon Park, Jae Woo Choi, Sun Young Kim, Ju Ock Kim, Sung Soo Jung, Hee Sun Park, Jae Young Moon, Jeong Eun Lee

PDF Pages: E235-E239 Full Text (4927) Open Access

Veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support during lung volume reduction surgery for a severe respiratory failure patient with emphysema

Xuyan Li, Hangyong He, Bing Sun

PDF Pages: E240-E243 Full Text (2786) Open Access

Revival of impaired lung perfusion after sleeve lobectomy

Tomoki Shibano, Hiroyoshi Tsubochi, Shunsuke Endo, Shinichi Yamamoto, Mitsuru Maki

PDF Pages: E244-E246 Full Text (2283) Open Access

Giant saccular superior vena cava aneurysm—a rare and difficult clinical case

Dariusz Janczak, Jacek Skiba, Marek Gemel, Marek Mak, Agnieszka Ziomek, Maciej Malinowski, Tadeusz Dorobisz, Michal Lesniak, Dawid Janczak, Mariusz Chabowski

PDF Pages: E247-E249 Full Text (3056) Open Access

Airway centered invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient: case report and literature review

Jun Ho Kim, Hong Lyeol Lee, Lucia Kim, Jung Soo Kim, Yeo Ju Kim, Ha Young Lee, Kyung Hee Lee

PDF Pages: E250-E254 Full Text (4988) Open Access

Bilateral chylothorax after transsternal total thymectomy: resolution with short period of fasting and total parenteral nutrition

Jinsik Kim, Jee Won Chang, Su Wan Kim, Seogjae Lee

PDF Pages: E255-E257 Full Text (2672) Open Access

Meeting Report

A joyful academic tour throughout the 23^rd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery

Chao-Xiu (Melanie) He

PDF Pages: E258-E262 Full Text (1933) Open Access

News

Journal of Thoracic Disease is endorsed by the Brazilian Society of Thoracic Surgery (SBCT)

Editorial Office

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Disclosure:

1. The series “GCTAB Column” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease and funded by the educational grants from the Greater China Thoracoscopic Advisory Board (GCTAB).

2. The series “Cough Section” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Peter Dicpinigaitis served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series from March 2016 to October 2019.

Vol 8, No 3 (March 18, 2016): Journal of Thoracic Disease

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