Vol 11, No 9 (September 30, 2019) - Journal of Thoracic Disease

Coenraad F. N. Koegelenberg, Shane Dorfman, Ivan Schewitz, Guy A. Richards, Shaun Maasdorp, Clifford Smith, Keertan Dheda, on behalf of the South African Thoracic Society

PDF Pages: 3696-3703 Full Text (3119) Open Access

Original Article

Diaphragmatic plication for iatrogenic respiratory insufficiency after cardiothoracic surgery

Takahiro Uchida, Yugo Tanaka, Nahoko Shimizu, Sanae Kuroda, Takefumi Doi, Daisuke Hokka, Yutaka Okita, Yoshimasa Maniwa

PDF Pages: 3704-3711 Full Text (2353) Open Access

Intracavitary chemotherapy with epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI) is not superior to TKI monotherapy in controlling malignant pleural effusion recurrence in EGFR-mutated lung cancer patients

Wenxian Wang, Xiaowen Jiang, Yiping Zhang, Yong Song, Zhengbo Song

PDF Pages: 3712-3720 Full Text (1451) Open Access

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy does not decrease the risk of malnutrition in esophageal cancer patients during radiotherapy compared to three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy

Cong Wang, Ming Lu, Tingting Zhou, Shasha Zhao, Shanghui Guan

PDF Pages: 3721-3731 Full Text (1315) Open Access

Anatomical pulmonary resections for primary lung cancer in octogenarians within a dedicated care protocol

Charlotte Cohen, Saleh Al Orainy, Daniel Pop, Michel Poudenx, Josiane Otto, Jean-Philippe Berthet, Nicolas Venissac, Jérome Mouroux

PDF Pages: 3732-3737 Full Text (1073) Open Access

Recovery of pulmonary function after lung wedge resection

Shohei Mori, Takamasa Shibazaki, Yuki Noda, Daiki Kato, Takeo Nakada, Hisatoshi Asano, Hideki Matsudaira, Takashi Ohtsuka

PDF Pages: 3738-3745 Full Text (4665) Open Access

Left heart decompression at venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation initiation in cardiogenic shock: prophylactic versus therapeutic strategy

Soo Jin Na, Jeong Hoon Yang, Ji-Hyuk Yang, Kiick Sung, Jin-Oh Choi, Joo-Yong Hahn, Eun-Seok Jeon, Yang Hyun Cho

PDF Pages: 3746-3756 Full Text (2190) Open Access

Prognostic impact of the Controlling Nutritional Status score in patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with pembrolizumab

Taro Ohba, Shinkichi Takamori, Ryo Toyozawa, Kaname Nosaki, Yasuhiro Umeyama, Naoki Haratake, Naoko Miura, Masafumi Yamaguchi, Kenichi Taguchi, Takashi Seto, Mototsugu Shimokawa, Mitsuhiro Takenoyama

PDF Pages: 3757-3768 Full Text (2071) Open Access

Feasibility and validity of double-arm specimen extraction method after partial lung resection in single-port thoracoscopic surgery

Xiaohui Yu, Bin Zheng, Shuliang Zhang, Taidui Zeng, Hao Chen, Wei Zheng, Chun Chen

PDF Pages: 3769-3775 Full Text (981) Open Access

Prognostic significance of IMP-3 expression pattern in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Terue Sakakibara, Soji Ozawa, Junya Oguma, Minoru Nakui, Soichiro Yamamoto, Hiroyasu Makuuchi, Hiroshi Kajiwara, Naoya Nakamura

PDF Pages: 3776-3784 Full Text (1225) Open Access

Clinical predictors of asthmatics in identifying subgroup requiring long-term tiotropium add-on therapy: a real-world study

Wen-Chien Cheng, Wei-Chih Liao, Biing-Ru Wu, Chih-Yu Chen, Meng-Fang Shen, Wei-Chun Chen, Te-Chun Hsia, Chih-Yen Tu, Chia-Hung Chen, Wu-Huei Hsu

PDF Pages: 3785-3793 Full Text (2556) Open Access

Impact of clinicopathological features on the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors plus conventional treatment in patients with advanced lung cancer

Guanghui Gao, Meng Qiao, Hongcheng Liu, Tao Jiang, Fei Zhou, Xuefei Li, Chao Zhao, Xiaoxia Chen, Chunxia Su, Shengxiang Ren, Caicun Zhou

PDF Pages: 3794-3807 Full Text (1388) Open Access

Effectiveness and safety of bovine pericardium patch repair for cervical anastomotic leakage after oesophagectomy for cancer

Xionghuai Hua, Rulin Qian, Kefeng Shi, Xiufeng Wei, Heng Zhang, Ge Qu, Maolin Chen, Binbin Zhang

PDF Pages: 3808-3813 Full Text (1235) Open Access

Effect of rifampicin and clarithromycin on the CYP3A activity in patients with Mycobacterium avium complex

Norimichi Akiyama, Naoki Inui, Kazutaka Mori, Yutaro Nakamura, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Shimako Tanaka, Shinya Uchida, Noriyuki Namiki, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takafumi Suda

PDF Pages: 3814-3821 Full Text (2821) Open Access

HIV and tuberculosis co-infection in East Asia and the Pacific from 1990 to 2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Jianrong Zhang, Stephanie Kern-Allely, Tiange Yu, Rumi Kato Price

PDF Pages: 3822-3835 Full Text (1846) Open Access

Patient outcomes post-pulmonary resection for synchronous bone-metastatic non-small cell lung cancer

Yuki Takahashi, Hirofumi Adachi, Yasushi Mizukami, Hiroshi Yokouchi, Satoshi Oizumi, Atsushi Watanabe

PDF Pages: 3836-3845 Full Text (1671) Open Access

Use of a modified endotracheal tube for self-expandable metallic Y-shaped airway stent deployment without rigid bronchoscope or fluoroscopic guidance

Shuliang Guo, Xinzhu Liu, Yishi Li, Yang Xiao, Meiling Xiao, Xingxing Jin

PDF Pages: 3846-3852 Full Text (1061) Open Access

Validation of spectral energy for the quantitative analysis of ventricular fibrillation waveform to guide defibrillation in a porcine model of cardiac arrest and resuscitation

Qiyu Yang, Ming Li, Zhaolan Huang, Zhuoyan Xie, Yue Wang, Qin Ling, Xuefen Liu, Wanchun Tang, Longyuan Jiang, Zhengfei Yang

PDF Pages: 3853-3863 Full Text (1243) Open Access

Real world experience on treatment, outcome and toxicity of crizotinib in patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer

Maria Fatima Flores Del Valle, Alex Yuang-Chi Chang

PDF Pages: 3864-3873 Full Text (2205) Open Access

Comparisons of short-term outcomes between robot-assisted and thoraco-laparoscopic esophagectomy with extended two-field lymph node dissection for resectable thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Junying Chen, Qianwen Liu, Xu Zhang, Hong Yang, Zihui Tan, Yaobin Lin, Jianhua Fu

PDF Pages: 3874-3880 Full Text (1904) Open Access

The position of the inferior vena cava-right atrium junction on simple radiography: implication for optimal veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation cannula tip position

Dong Su Kim, Yun Gyu Song, Yong Hwan Kim, Moon Ok Lee

PDF Pages: 3881-3886 Full Text (2659) Open Access

Peri-operative risk factors for in-hospital mortality in acute type A aortic dissection

Miaoyun Wen, Yongli Han, Jingkun Ye, Gengxin Cai, Wenxin Zeng, Xinqiang Liu, Linqiang Huang, Zhesi Lian, Hongke Zeng

PDF Pages: 3887-3895 Full Text (2422) Open Access

Uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery reduced the occurrence of post-thoracotomy pain syndrome after lobectomy for lung cancer

Kyoji Hirai, Jitsuo Usuda

PDF Pages: 3896-3902 Full Text (1570) Open Access

Laparoscopic repair of hiatal hernia

Ju Sik Yun, Kook Joo Na, Sang Yun Song, Seok Kim, Eunchong Kim, In Seok Jeong, Sang Gi Oh

PDF Pages: 3903-3908 Full Text (1764) Open Access

A modified recursive partitioning analysis for predicting overall survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and central nervous system metastases

Thiago Pimentel Muniz, Victor Hugo Fonseca de Jesus, Victor Aurélio Ramos Sousa, Malu Viter da Rosa Barbosa, Vladmir Cláudio Cordeiro de Lima

PDF Pages: 3909-3919 Full Text (1052) Open Access

Comparison between noninvasive and conventional skin closure methods in off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting using bilateral internal thoracic artery

Heemoon Lee, Sang Yoon Yeom, Hee Jung Kim, Jae Suk Yoo, Dong Jin Kim, Kwang Ree Cho

PDF Pages: 3920-3928 Full Text (1494) Open Access

The prognostic predictors of patients with airway involvement due to advanced esophageal cancer after metallic airway stenting using flexible bronchoscopy

Wen-Chien Cheng, Meng-Fang Shen, Biing-Ru Wu, Chih-Yu Chen, Wei-Chun Chen, Wei-Chih Liao, Chia-Hung Chen, Chih-Yen Tu

PDF Pages: 3929-3940 Full Text (1345) Open Access

Prolyl hydroxylase 3 involvement in lung cancer progression under hypoxic conditions: association with hypoxia-inducible factor-1α and pyruvate kinase M2

Xiao Chu, Ming Xiang, Liang Feng, Hui Liu, Chao Zhou

PDF Pages: 3941-3950 Full Text (1615) Open Access

Repair versus replacement of mitral valves in cases of severe rheumatic mitral stenosis: mid-term clinical outcomes

Yuqing Jiao, Tiange Luo, Haibo Zhang, Jie Han, Yan Li, Yixin Jia, Shuai Zheng, Xu Meng

PDF Pages: 3951-3961 Full Text (1897) Open Access

Discovery of potential plasma protein biomarkers for acute myocardial infarction via proteomics

Shasha Xu, Jianjun Jiang, Yang Zhang, Tingting Chen, Min Zhu, Chongfeng Fang, Yafei Mi

PDF Pages: 3962-3972 Full Text (2542) Open Access

Immunohistochemistry and clinical value of sirtuin 2 in non-metastasized non-small cell lung cancer

Cai-Xia Gao, Bin Chen, Hui-Kang Xie, Chao-Nan Han, Jie Luo

PDF Pages: 3973-3979 Full Text (1013) Open Access

Alpha-l-fucosidase: a novel serum biomarker to predict prognosis in early stage esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Xiangyang Yu, Rusi Zhang, Tianzhen Yang, Mengqi Zhang, Kexing Xi, Yongbin Lin, Yingsheng Wen, Gongming Wang, Zirui Huang, Xuewen Zhang, Lanjun Zhang

PDF Pages: 3980-3990 Full Text (1721) Open Access

Early decongestive therapy versus high-flow nasal cannula for the prevention of adverse clinical events in patients with acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema

Sang Yong Om, Junho Hyun, Kyung Hun Nam, Sun Hack Lee, Seung Min Song, Jung Ae Hong, Sang Eun Lee, Min-Seok Kim

PDF Pages: 3991-3999 Full Text (1598) Open Access

Estimating the quality of YouTube videos on pulmonary lobectomy

Zixuan Chen, Hongyu Zhu, Weijun Zhao, Haixie Guo, Chengwei Zhou, Jianfei Shen, Minhua Ye

PDF Pages: 4000-4004 Full Text (1361) Open Access

Elevation of pulmonary CD163⁺ and CD204⁺ macrophages is associated with the clinical course of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients

Takashi Nouno, Masaki Okamoto, Koji Ohnishi, Shinjiro Kaieda, Masaki Tominaga, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Masao Ichiki, Seiya Momosaki, Masayuki Nakamura, Kiminori Fujimoto, Junya Fukuoka, Shigeki Shimizu, Yoshihiro Komohara, Tomoaki Hoshino

PDF Pages: 4005-4017 Full Text (2751) Open Access

Surgical Technique

Balloon-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for apex posterior mediastinal benign neurogenic tumor

Xiaohui Xu, Xiaoyun Zhou, Chao Gao, Yushang Cui

PDF Pages: 4018-4020 Full Text (1132) Open Access

Vagus nerve and phrenic nerve guided systematic nodal dissection for lung cancer

Zhenguo Liu, Yao Liu, Chunying Xie, Jiali Yang, Bo Zeng, Sai-Ching Jim Yeung, Chao Cheng

PDF Pages: 4021-4027 Full Text (1640) Open Access

Complete thoracoscopic sleeve lobectomy for mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a 5-year-old boy

Xukai Li, Tuo Xing, Fei Cui, Jianxing He

PDF Pages: 4028-4030 Full Text (Video) (1073) Open Access

Review Article

Lung morphology and surfactant function in cardiogenic pulmonary edema: a narrative review

Kenneth Nugent, Logan Dobbe, Rubayat Rahman, Mohamed Elmassry, Pablo Paz

PDF Pages: 4031-4038 Full Text (4539) Open Access

Unraveling the role of ectopic thymic tissue in patients undergoing thymectomy for myasthenia gravis

Feng Li, Ya Tao, Gero Bauer, Aron Elsner, Zhongmin Li, Marc Swierzy, Julianna Englisch, Andreas Meisel, Mahmoud Ismail, Jens-C. Rückert

PDF Pages: 4039-4048 Full Text (2372) Open Access

Endobronchial ultrasound-guided intranodal forceps biopsy (EBUS-IFB)—technical review

George Cheng, Amit Mahajan, Scott Oh, Sadia Benzaquen, Alexander Chen

PDF Pages: 4049-4058 Full Text (Video) (5821) Open Access

The quantification and monitoring of intraoperative nociception levels in thoracic surgery: a review

Ismael Ghanty, Stefan Schraag

PDF Pages: 4059-4071 Full Text (3611) Open Access

Newsletter of GARD Section¹

Next-generation care pathways for allergic rhinitis and asthma multimorbidity: a model for multimorbid non-communicable diseases—Meeting Report (Part 2)

Jean Bousquet, Nhân Pham-Thi, Anna Bedbrook, Ioana Agache, Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Ignacio Ansotegui, Josep M. Anto, Claus Bachert, Samuel Benveniste, Mike Bewick, Nils Billo, Sinthia Bosnic-Anticevich, Isabelle Bosse, Guy Brusselle, Moïses A. Calderon, G. Walter Canonica, Luis Caraballo, Victoria Cardona, Ana Maria Carriazo, Eugene Cash, Lorenzo Cecchi, Derek K. Chu, Elaine Colgan, Elisio Costa, Alvaro A. Cruz, Wienczyslawa Czarlewski, Stephen Durham, Motohiro Ebisawa, Marina Erhola, Jean-Luc Fauquert, Wytske J. Fokkens, Joao A. Fonseca, Nick Guldemond, Tomohisa Iinuma, Maddalena Illario, Ludger Klimek, Piotr Kuna, Violeta Kvedariene, Désirée Larenas-Linneman, Daniel Laune, Lan T. T. Le, Olga Lourenço, Joao O. Malva, Gert Marien, Enrica Menditto, Joaquim Mullol, Lars Münter, Yoshitaka Okamoto, Gabrielle L. Onorato, Nikos G. Papadopoulos, Maritta Perala, Oliver Pfaar, Abigail Phillips, Jim Phillips, Hilary Pinnock, Fabienne Portejoie, Pablo Quinones-Delgado, Christine Rolland, Ulysse Rodts, Boleslaw Samolinski, Mario Sanchez-Borges, Holger J. Schünemann, Mohamed Shamji, David Somekh, Alkis Togias, Sanna Toppila-Salmi, Ioanna Tsiligianni, Omar Usmani, Samantha Walker, Dana Wallace, Arunas Valiulis, Rianne Van der Kleij, Maria Teresa Ventura, Sian Williams, Arzu Yorgancioglu, Torsten Zuberbier

PDF Pages: 4072-4084 Full Text (5726) Open Access

Letter to the Editor of Interventional Pulmonology Corner²

Novel technique to prevent central airway blood flooding during transbronchial cryobiopsy

Masahide Oki, Hideo Saka

PDF Pages: 4085-4089 Full Text (1361) Open Access

Letter to the Editor

Eggs, dietary cholesterol, and cardiovascular disease: the debate continues

Victor W. Zhong

PDF Pages: E148-E150 Full Text (1756) Open Access

Erratum

Erratum to robotic lobectomy has the greatest benefit in patients with marginal pulmonary function

Monica Casiraghi, Lorenzo Spaggiari

PDF Pages: E151 Full Text (729) Open Access

Disclosure:

1. The series “GARD Section” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Yousser Mohammad and Alvaro A. Cruz served as the unpaid Guest Editors for the series.

2. 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.

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