Vol 10, No 11 (November 28, 2018): Journal of Thoracic Disease

iMDT Corner

A young man with progressive esophageal neoplasms
Yaxing Shen, Jianfei Shen, Kevin Phan, David Tian, Thomas A. D’Amico, Mark F. Berry, Shanda H. Blackmon, Shari L. Meyerson, Xavier Benoit D’Journo, Yi-Jen Chen, Garrett Baron, Yingyong Hou, Lijie Tan, written on behalf of AME Esophageal Cancer Collaborative Group

Original Article

Distribution of the atypical pathogens of community-acquired pneumonia to disease severity
Cheng Gong, Tiegang Zhang, Ming Luo, Aihua Li, Mei Dong, Maozhong Li, Yiting Wang, Fang Huang
Association between hand grip strength and spirometric parameters: Korean National health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES)
Chang Hoon Han, Jae Ho Chung
Predictive factors for invasive adenocarcinoma in patients with clinical non-invasive or minimally invasive lung cancer
Youngkyu Moon, Jae Kil Park, Kyo Young Lee, Seha Ahn, Jinwon Shin
Patient and procedural features predicting early and mid-term outcome after radical surgery for non-small cell lung cancer
Christoph Ellenberger, Najia Garofano, Thomas Reynaud, Frédéric Triponez, John Diaper, Pierre-Olivier Bridevaux, Wolfram Karenovics, Marc Licker
Epidermal growth factor receptor mutation accelerates radiographic progression in lung adenocarcinoma presented as a solitary ground-glass opacity
Qijue Lu, Ye Ma, Zhao An, Tiejun Zhao, Zhiyun Xu, Hezhong Chen
HRCT in primary pulmonary lymphoma: can CT imaging phenotypes
Yinan Chen, Aiping Chen, Hailin Jiang, Yuxuan Zhang, Lin Zhu, Chunyan Xia, Hong Yu
Association between coronary artery atherosclerosis and plasma glucose levels assessed by dual-source computed tomography
Yi Yu, Zhiwen Zhou, Kun Sun, Lili Xi, Lina Zhang, Lingwei Yu, Jing Wang, Jiayi Zheng, Ming Ding
Is adjuvant antifungal therapy after video-assisted thoracic surgery for pulmonary aspergilloma necessary?
Shuo Zheng, Xin Li, Bin Hu, Hui Li
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the accuracy of 18F-FDG PET/CT for detection of regional lymph node metastasis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Chenxue Jiang, Yun Chen, Yaoyao Zhu, Yapping Xu
Clinical significance of Glasgow Prognostic Score in patients with tuberculous pleurisy
Hye Seon Kang, Hwa Young Lee, Jung Im Jung, Ju Sang Kim, Yong Hyun Kim, Seung Joon Kim, Seok Chan Kim, Soon Seog Kwon, Young Kyoon Kim, Ji Young Kang
Risk of spinal cord ischemia after thoracic endovascular aortic repair
Ling Xue, Songyuan Luo, Huanyu Ding, Yi Zhu, Yuan Liu, Wenhui Huang, Jie Li, Nianjin Xie, Pengcheng He, Xiaoping Fan, Ruixin Fan, Zhiqiang Nie, Jianfang Luo
Treatment with transfemoral bare-metal stent of residual aortic arch dissection after surgical repair of acute type an aortic dissection
Luigi Di Tommaso, Raffaele Giordano, Ettorino Di Tommaso, Giusi Di Palo, Gabriele Iannelli
A surveillance method-oriented detection of post-operative spatial-temporal recurrence for non-small cell lung cancer
Jun-Jie Xi, Jia-Cheng Yin, Lin Wang, Chun-Lai Lu, Qun Wang, Wei Jiang
Clinical features of Mycoplasma pneumoniae coinfection and need for its testing in influenza pneumonia patients
Jung Heon Kim, Jae Hyun Kwon, Jeong-Yong Lee, Jong Seung Lee, Jeong-Min Ryu, Sung-Han Kim, Kyoung Soo Lim, Won Young Kim
Mid-term follow-up after suture-less aortic heart valve implantation
Grzegorz Filip, Radoslaw Litwinowicz, Boguslaw Kapelak, Jacek Piatek, Magdalena Bartus, Janusz Konstanty-Kalandyk, Maciej Brzezinski, Krzysztof Bartus
Triglyceride glucose index for predicting cardiovascular outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease
Jing-Lu Jin, Ye-Xuan Cao, Li-Guo Wu, Xiang-Dong You, Yuan-Lin Guo, Na-Qiong Wu, Cheng-Gang Zhu, Ying Gao, Qiu-Ting Dong, Hui-Wen Zhang, Di Sun, Geng Liu, Qian Dong, Jian-Jun Li
Mutational profile of colorectal cancer lung metastases and paired primary tumors by targeted next generation sequencing: implications on clinical outcome after surgery
Thomas Schweiger, Sandra Liebmann-Reindl, Olaf Glueck, Patrick Starlinger, Johannes Laengle, Peter Birner, Walter Klepetko, Dietmar Pils, Berthold Streubel, Konrad Hoetzenecker
Unidirectional endobronchial valves for management of persistent air-leaks: results of a multicenter study
Alfonso Fiorelli, Antonio D’Andrilli, Roberto Cascone, Luisa Occhiati, Marco Anile, Daniele Diso, Francesco Cassiano, Camilla Poggi, Mohsen Ibrahim, Giacomo Cusumano, Alberto Terminella, Giuseppe Failla, Alba La Sala, Michela Bezzi, Margherita Innocenti, Elena Torricelli, Federico Venuta, Erino Angelo Rendina, Giovanni Vicidomini, Mario Santini, Claudio Andreetti
Epidemiology of chronic airway disease: results from a cross-sectional survey in Beijing, China
Hong Zhang, Li Dong, Yi-Kun Kang, Yong Lu, Hui-Hong Wei, Jie Huang, Xue Wang, Kewu Huang
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for postoperative ischemic bronchitis after resection of lung cancer
Makoto Endoh, Hiroyuki Oizumi, Hirohisa Kato, Jun Suzuki, Hikaru Watarai, Akira Hamada, Katsuyuki Suzuki, Kenta Nakahashi, Satoshi Shiono, Mitsuaki Sadahiro
Influence of cannula positioning on brain injury during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Seong Cheol Jeong, Hee Jung Kim, Yeon Soo Shin, Jung Wook Han, Ju Yong Lim, Ho Sung Son
Total aortic arch replacement using elephant trunk or frozen elephant trunk technique: a case-control matching study
Sabreen Mkalaluh, Marcin Szczechowicz, Ahmed Mashhour, Konstantin Zhigalov, Jerry Easo, Harald Christian Eichstaedt, Jürgen Ennker, Rohit Philip Thomas, Ajay Chavan, Alexander Weymann
Recurrence of pectus excavatum following the Nuss procedure
Deog Gon Cho, Jae Jun Kim, Jae Kil Park, Seok Whan Moon
Circulating exosomal miR-92b-5p is a promising diagnostic biomarker of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction patients hospitalized for acute heart failure
Tao Wu, Yichen Chen, Yantao Du, Jin Tao, Wei Li, Zhong Zhou, Zhuo Yang
Assessment of dyspneic patients in the emergency department using point-of-care lung and cardiac ultrasonography—a prospective observational study
Yiwen Koh, Mui Teng Chua, Weng Hoe Ho, Chengjie Lee, Gene Wai Han Chan, Win Sen Kuan
Pectus excavatum and congenital cystic lung lesion: simultaneous surgery advocated
Hui Wang, Feng-Hua Wang, Jian-Hua Liang, Wei Liu, Jing-Zhou Yang, Xiao-Hua Guo, Wen-Yue Si, Hui-Min Xia
MicroRNA351 targeting TRAF6 alleviates dexamethasone-induced myotube atrophy
Jiaying Qiu, Lingbin Wang, Ye Wang, Qiuyu Zhang, Wenjing Ma, Qingqing Fang, Hualin Sun, Fei Ding
Should minimally invasive lung adenocarcinoma be transferred from stage IA1 to stage 0 in future updates of the TNM staging system?
Tianxiang Chen, Jizhuang Luo, Haiyong Gu, Yu Gu, Jia Huang, Qingquan Luo, Yunhai Yang

Short Communication

Evaluation of combined anti-PD-1 immunotherapy and radiation therapy in a preclinical mouse model of pneumonitis and fibrosis
Derek Nichols, Theresa A. Boyle, David Noyes, Kujtim Latifi, Vladimir Feygelman, Isabel Jackson, Zeljko Vujaskovic, Scott Antonia, Bradford A. Perez

Review Article

Bronchoscopic treatment of emphysema: an update
Camilla Poggi, Sara Mantovani, Ylenia Pecoraro, Carolina Carillo, Massimiliano Bassi, Antonio D’Andrilli, Marco Anile, Erino A. Rendina, Federico Venuta, Daniele Diso
For your eyes only”: ophthalmic complications following lung transplantation
Udit Dhal, Shine Raju, Arun D. Singh, Atul C. Mehta

Review Article of Interventional Pulmonology Corner1

Therapeutic bronchoscopy in the era of genotype directed lung cancer management
Arjun Mohan, Kassem Harris, Mark R. Bowling, Craig Brown, Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt

Guideline of Cough Section2

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Cough—Chinese Thoracic Society (CTS) Asthma Consortium
Kefang Lai, Huahao Shen, Xin Zhou, Zhongmin Qiu, Shaoxi Cai, Kewu Huang, Qiuping Wang, Changzheng Wang, Jiangtao Lin, Chuangli Hao, Lingfei Kong, Shunan Zhang, Yaolong Chen, Wei Luo, Mei Jiang, Jiaxing Xie, Nanshan Zhong

Statistics Corner3

How to create a surgical database?
Dania Nachira, Luca Bertolaccini, Mahmoud Ismail, Marco Chiappetta, Elisa Meacci, Stefano Margaritora

Consensus

Society for Translational Medicine expert consensus on the use of antibacterial drugs in thoracic surgery
Shanqing Li, Zhijun Han, Jie He, Shugeng Gao, Deruo Liu, Lunxu Liu, Jianxing He, Yunchao Huang, Shidong Xu, Weimin Mao, Qunyou Tan, Chun Chen, Xiaofei Li, Zhu Zhang, Gening Jiang, Lin Xu, Lanjun Zhang, Jianhua Fu, Hui Li, Qun Wang, Lijie Tan, Danqing Li, Qinghua Zhou, Xiangning Fu, Zhongmin Jiang, Haiquan Chen, Wentao Fang, Xun Zhang, Yin Li, Ti Tong, Zhentao Yu, Yongyu Liu, Xiuyi Zhi, Tiansheng Yan, Xingyi Zhang, Andrea Imperatori, Mohsen Ibrahim, Nuria M. Novoa, Calvin Sze Hang Ng, René Horsleben Petersen, Jin-Shing Chen, Yoshinosuke Fukuchi, Alessandro Brunelli, Mahmoud Ismail, Javier Aragón Valverde, Carlos Rodriguez-Lucas

Case Report

An unexpected SCLC diagnosed by electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy
Yuanyang Lai, Dong Sun, Peilong Bao, Weimiao Li, Xiaofei Li, Jinbo Zhao
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in an HIV-infected patient mimicking acute eosinophilic pneumonia: a case report with a review of the literature
Hiroshi Ohji, Tsutomu Shinohara, Naoki Kadota, Yoshio Okano, Keishi Naruse, Yoshihito Iwahara, Fumitaka Ogushi
Successful treatment of lung adenocarcinoma with gefitinib based on EGFR gene amplification
Chunguo Wang, Feng Xu, Jianfei Shen, Linna Zhang, Jian Zhang, Jiang Jin, Luca Ampollini, Paul van Schil, Hideharu Kimura, Francesco Grossi, Kenichi Suda, Bo Zhang, Dehua Ma, written on behalf of the AME Lung Cancer Collaborative Group

Disclosure:

1. The series “Interventional Pulmonology Corner” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Kassem Harris served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.

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.

3. The series “Statistics Corner” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Luca Bertolaccini served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.