Vol 10, Supplement 18 (July 2018): Journal of Thoracic Disease

Editorial

Clinical usefulness of the surgical Apgar score for estimating short-term and prognostic outcomes after esophagectomy

Naoya Yoshida, Hideo Baba

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Dual antiplatelet therapy post CABG?—perhaps, but… why not a radial artery instead?

Jeremy R. Leonard, Antonino Di Franco, Mario Gaudino

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Multidisciplinary team approach for complicated pneumothorax

Atsushi Sano

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Oxygenation in post-resuscitation care—how much is too much?

Sebastian Schnaubelt, Hans Domanovits, Alexander Niessner, Patrick Sulzgruber

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Adjuvant treatment for EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer: do we have a major breakthrough?

Giandomenico Roviello, Marco Imperatori, Michele Aieta, Francesco Sollitto, Matteo Landriscina

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The use of cardiac progenitor cells for transplantation in congenital heart disease and an innovative strategy for activating mitochondrial function in such cells

Jiro Abe, Yuma Yamada, Hideyoshi Harashima

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ERAS is 20 years old—now it’s time to standardized the intra-op part of our care

Robert J. Cerfolio

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Harmonization study of antibodies and platforms for programmed death ligand 1 immunostaining in non-small cell lung cancer: does shuffling couples settle the troubles?

Jumpei Kashima, Yusuke Okuma

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PD-L1 immunohistochemistry in patients with non-small cell lung cancer

Takanobu Jotatsu, Keishi Oda, Kazuhiro Yatera

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Is alectinib the new first line therapy in ALK-rearranged advanced non-small cell lung cancer?

Anthonie J. van der Wekken, Klaas Kok, Harry J. M. Groen

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Change is in the air: dying to breathe oxygen in acute respiratory distress syndrome?

Pierce Geoghegan, Sean Keane, Ignacio Martin-Loeches

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(J)ALEX the great: a new era in the world of ALK inhibitors

Solenn Brosseau, Valérie Gounant, Gérard Zalcman

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Recovery of lung function after segmentectomy versus lobectomy for early-stage lung cancer

Tawee Tanvetyanon, Robert J. Keenan

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cT2N0 esophageal cancer remains a difficult diagnosis

Jon O. Wee

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Timing of high intensity statin for acute coronary syndrome: how earlier initiation makes better?

Choongki Kim, Donghoon Choi

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Personalized treatment of malignant mesothelioma—dream or reality?

Anja C. Roden

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Sex and mortality associated with coronary artery bypass graft

Vito A. Mannacio, Luigi Mannacio

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Female gender and left ventricular dysfunction in myocardial surgical revascularization: the strange couple

Luigi Di Tommaso, Raffaele Giordano, Ettorino Di Tommaso, Gabriele Iannelli

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Multi-analyte assays and early detection of common cancers

Robert P. Young, Timothy Christmas, Raewyn J. Hopkins

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Brain imaging in early stage non-small cell lung cancer: still a controversial topic?

Janna J. A. O. Schoenmaekers, Anne-Marie C. Dingemans, Lizza E. L. Hendriks

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Ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death in patients with Ebstein anomaly: insights from a retrospective cohort study

Victor Waldmann, Paul Khairy

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The fundamental problem of confounding by medical operability in retrospective comparisons of surgery versus stereotactic body radiation therapy for early-stage lung cancer

Vivek Verma, Chad G. Rusthoven

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NextGen training assessment tools in thoracic surgery

Justin M. Karush, Christopher W. Seder

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Invited editorial on “Fissureless fissure-last video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy for all lung lobes: a better alternative to decrease the incidence of prolonged air leak?”

Hitoshi Igai, Mitsuhiro Kamiyoshihara, Ryohei Yoshikawa, Fumi Osawa, Tomohiro Yazawa

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Immune phenotypes in lung cancer patients with COPD: potential implications for immunotherapy

Roberto Chalela, Joaquim Gea, Esther Barreiro

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Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy: a matter of competence

Mario Nosotti

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Editorial on “upfront surgery as first-line therapy in selected patients with stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer”

Hongsheng Lin, Kun Qiao

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Predictive biomarkers for immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy: we need to keep searching

Mary M. Huerter, Apar Kishor Ganti

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ALK inhibitors and checkpoint blockade: a cautionary tale of mixing oil with water?

Malini Patel, Salma K. Jabbour, Jyoti Malhotra

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Gender and surgical revascularization: there is a light at the end of the tunnel?

Michele Di Mauro, Antonio Totaro, Massimiliano Foschi, Antonio Maria Calafiore

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Standardizing the time-honored wedge resection

Masatsugu Hamaji, So Miyahara, Hyun-Sung Lee, Bryan M. Burt

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Robotic versus uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery for lung cancer

Herbert Thomas Maier, Florian Augustin

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Extended-sleeve lobectomy: a technically demanding last-ditch effort in lung sparing surgery for central tumor

Charlotte Cohen, Jean-Philippe Berthet

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Letter to the Editor

Awake extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients expanding the horizons

Cyril J. Chacko, Shradha Goyal, Hakeem Yusuff

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Rigid bronchoscopy in mainland China: present state and perspectives

Haidong Huang, Michael Simoff, Qiang Li, Chong Bai

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Lymph node micrometastasis in N stage: a call for more evidence

Yijiu Ren, Chenyang Dai, Huikang Xie, Yunlang She, Hang Su, Chang Chen

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Interactome analysis reveals MALAT1 binding with DBC1—author’s reply

Ruibing Chen, Yun Liu, Hao Zhuang, Xinran Zhang, Xiaowen Shao, Yamei Dang, Fei Wu, Yongmei Li, Ning Zhang

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Epidural for mini-invasive thoracic surgery: do we need a sledgehammer to crack a nut?

Marzia Umari, Matteo Segat, Umberto Lucangelo

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Authors’ reply—multi-organ ultrasonography: a stethoscope for the body

Valentina Della Torre, Francesco Corradi, Rafael Badenes, Chiara Robba

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