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JTD Annual Report 2020

We are glad to present a brief introduction of JTD’s progress in 2020 here. JTD grew steadily and published 926 papers last year, among which there’re 522 Original Articles and 191 Review Articles. According to the Google Analytics, JTD also had an increasing number of visitors (all together 818, 006 worldwide and 1, 682, 037 page views).

We are grateful to all the Editorial Board Members, Authors, Reviewers and Readers who have contributed to and supported JTD in 2020. In the new year, we warmly welcome more excellent surgeons and researchers to join us to make JTD an innovative and significant platform.

Artificial Intelligence in Thoracic Disease: From Bench to Bed

This Series on Artificial Intelligence in Thoracic Disease: From Bench to Bed is edited by Drs. Jianxing He and Hengrui Liang, from Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Thymoma

This series focusing on thymoma presents up-to- date and extensive reviews spanning from the epidemiology to the genetics and biology and to the diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. Similar to other rare tumors, thymoma has been largely understudied for years. However, in the last few years there has been significant research performed particularly in the field of molecular biology of these tumors. Several important and novel advancements in genetics and molecular biology are discussed in two chapters of this series. Furthermore, the principles of current care including all novelties regarding diagnostic and treatment modalities are provided in several other chapters.

Reviewer of the Month (2020)

2020 is passing in the wink of an eye. Over the year, many JTD reviewers have made outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work. We would like to highlight a few of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer.

Contemporary Practice in Thoracic Neoplasm Diagnosis, Evaluation and Treatment

Despite increasing public awareness of smoking related morbidity and mortality and implementation of lung cancer screening programs, lung cancer remains the number one cause of cancer related death. As our knowledge of lung cancer pathogenesis advances, approaches to diagnose, surveil and treat lung cancer also evolve. In this series, we seek to update our readers on contemporary practices in thoracic neoplasm diagnosis, evaluation and treatment.

Patient Reported Outcomes in Thoracic Surgery: A New Frontier

In surgery, there are clear and important opportunities for the use of PROs to improve quality of care, and specifically for patients undergoing thoracic operations. Thoracic operations have been associated with major changes in patients’ health-related quality of life (hr-QOL) including physical functioning and emotional, social and mental well-being; this type of impact is paralleled by few other fields in medicine or surgery. It is our opinion, that there is need for thoracic surgery research that focuses on PROs.

Modified SEIR and AI prediction of the epidemics trend of COVID-19 in China under public health interventions

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak originating in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, coincided with chunyun, the period of mass migration for the annual Spring Festival. To contain its spread, China adopted unprecedented nationwide interventions on January 23, 2020. These policies included large-scale quarantine, strict controls on travel and extensive monitoring of suspected cases. However, it is unknown whether these policies have had an impact on the epidemic. We sought to show how these control measures impacted the containment of the epidemic.

Testimonials for JTD from Eminent Experts Worldwide

Eminent Experts Worldwide, including editorial board members, authors, and readers, who know the journal well, provided testimonials for JTD. We are thankful for their support for the journal.

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Vol 12, No 12 (December, 2020)

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Air Pollution more

Age modification of ozone associations with cardiovascular disease risk in adults: a potential role for soluble P-selectin and blood pressure

Drew B. Day, Merlise A. Clyde, Jianbang Xiang, Feng Li, Xiaoxing Cui, Jinhan Mo, Jicheng Gong,... More >>

Assessment of a respiratory face mask for capturing air pollutants and pathogens including human influenza and rhinoviruses

S. Steve Zhou, Salimatu Lukula, Cory Chiossone, Raymond W. Nims, Donna B. Suchmann, M. Khalid Ijaz More >>

Relationship between free and total malondialdehyde, a well-established marker of oxidative stress, in various types of human biospecimens

Xiaoxing Cui, Jicheng Gong, Hailong Han, Linchen He, Yanbo Teng, Teresa Tetley, Rudy Sinharay,... More >>

GARD Section more

The nationwide program of allergic disease prevention as an implementation of GARD guidelines in Poland

Filip Raciborski, Bolesław Samoliński, Edyta Krzych-Fałta, Aleksandra Grąbczewska, Filip... More >>

A strategy for measuring health outcomes and evaluating impacts of interventions on asthma and COPD—common chronic respiratory diseases in Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD) countries

Teresa To, Alvaro A. Cruz, Giovanni Viegi, Rachel McGihon, Nikolai Khaltaev, Arzu Yorgancioglu,... More >>

Integrating primary care of chronic respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease and diabetes in Brazil: Practical Approach to Care Kit (PACK Brazil): study protocol for randomised controlled trials

Max O. Bachmann, Eric D. Bateman, Rafael Stelmach, Álvaro A. Cruz, Matheus Pacheco de Andrade,... More >>

Cough Section more

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... More >>

Methodology for development of the Chinese evidence-based Clinical Practice Guideline of the Diagnosis and Management of Cough

Mei Jiang, Yan-Qing Xie, Jia-Xing Xie, Xiang-Wei Zou, Ke-Fang Lai More >>

Cough frequency monitors: can they discriminate patient from environmental coughs?

Stefan T. Kulnik, Natalie M. Williams, Lalit Kalra, John Moxham, Surinder S. Birring More >>

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Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD)

Original Article

Comparison of preoperative scores predicting outcome in elderly undergoing lung malignancies resection

Rita Vaz Souza, Massimiliano Bassi, Sara Mantovani, Camilla Poggi, Daniele Diso, Jacopo Vannucci, Andreina Pagini, Davide Amore, Federico Venuta, Marco Anile

PDF Pages: 7083-7088 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Postoperative hypothermia after total aortic arch replacement in acute type A aortic dissection—multivariate analysis and risk identification for postoperative hypothermia occurrence

Huan Liu, Xiuwen Wang, Shun Liu, Shuo Cong, Yuntao Lu, Ye Yang, Wenshuo Wang, Hao Lai, Xin Li, Lai Wei, Chunsheng Wang

PDF Pages: 7089-7096 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Prediction of clinical response to omalizumab in moderate-to-severe asthma patients using the change in total serum IgE level

Bohou Li, Minyu Huang, Shuyu Huang, Xiaoli Zeng, Yafei Yuan, Xianru Peng, Wenqu Zhao, Yanmei Ye, Changhui Yu, Laiyu Liu, Chunquan Ou, Shaoxi Cai, Haijin Zhao

PDF Pages: 7097-7105 Full Text Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Efficacy of cardiovascular surgery for Marfan syndrome patients: a single-center 15-year follow-up study

Boyao Zhang, Qing Xue, Yangfeng Tang, Shangyi Yu, Xingli Fan, Zhiyun Xu, Lin Han

PDF Pages: 7106-7116 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

One-stage hybrid procedure for distal aortic arch disease: mid-term experience at a single center

Su-Wei Chen, Yong-Liang Zhong, Zhi-Yu Qiao, Cheng-Nan Li, Yi-Peng Ge, Rui-Dong Qi, Hai-Ou Hu, Li-Zhong Sun, Jun-Ming Zhu

PDF Pages: 7117-7126 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Does short-term cessation of smoking before lung resections reduce the risk of complications?

Tomoyoshi Takenaka, Fumihiro Shoji, Tetsuzo Tagawa, Fumihiko Kinoshita, Naoki Haratake, Makoto Edagawa, Koji Yamazaki, Mitsuhiro Takenoyama, Sadanori Takeo, Masaki Mori

PDF Pages: 7127-7134 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Preoperative risk factors for successful extubation or not after lung transplantation

Run Li, Jiang Shi, Danxia Huang, Ying Chen, Weixue Cui, Hengrui Liang, Wenhua Liang, Guilin Peng, Chao Yang, Mengyang Liu, Minting Kuang, Xin Xu, Jianxing He

PDF Pages: 7135-7144 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Uniportal versus multiportal thoracoscopic sleeve lobectomy for the surgical treatment of centrally located lung cancer: a single institution experience

Jun Zhao, Qingpeng Zeng, Jiagen Li, Fengwei Tan, Qi Xue, Juwei Mu, Yushun Gao, Dali Wang, Shugeng Gao

PDF Pages: 7145-7155 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Central location and risk of imaging occult mediastinal lymph node involvement in cN0T2-4 non-small cell lung cancer

Julien Guinde, Etienne Bourdages-Pageau, Paula Antonia Ugalde, Marc Fortin

PDF Pages: 7156-7163 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Factors associated with discrepancy between fresh frozen and permanent biopsy from medical thoracoscopy: single center analysis of 172 medical flexible thoracoscopy cases

Jeong Uk Lim, Jongyeol Oh, Hyung Woo Kim, Woo Ho Ban, Eun Su Park, Jick Hwan Ha, Ju Sang Kim, Sang Haak Lee

PDF Pages: 7164-7173 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Nationwide quality assessment of treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Kyu Yean Kim, Kwang Ha Yoo, Hye Sook Choi, Bo Yeon Kim, Sang In Ahn, Yon U. Jo, Chin Kook Rhee

PDF Pages: 7174-7181 Full Text Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

The clinical suspicion of a leaking intrathoracic esophagogastric anastomosis: the role of CT imaging

Victor D. Plat, Boukje T. Bootsma, Jennifer Straatman, Janneke van den Bergh, Jan-Hein T. M. van Waesberghe, Joanna Luttikhold, Micha D. P. Luyer, Donald L. van der Peet, Freek Daams

PDF Pages: 7182-7192 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Changes in aortic arch geometry and the risk for Stanford B dissection

Peng Qiu, Junchao Liu, Yuqian Chen, Binshan Zha, Kaichuang Ye, Jinbao Qin, Peipei Hao, Jiwen Kang, Chao Zhang, Huagang Zhu, Xinwu Lu

PDF Pages: 7193-7201 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Developing a minimally-invasive anaesthesiological approach to non-intubated uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in minor and major thoracic surgery

Henning Starke, Norman Zinne, Andreas Leffler, Patrick Zardo, Jan Karsten

PDF Pages: 7202-7217 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

The utility of three-dimensional computed tomography for prediction of tumor invasiveness in clinical stage IA lung adenocarcinoma

Yohei Kawaguchi, Masayuki Nakao, Kenshiro Omura, Naoya Iwamoto, Hiroki Ozawa, Yasuto Kondo, Junji Ichinose, Yosuke Matsuura, Sakae Okumura, Mingyon Mun

PDF Pages: 7218-7226 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

First clinical experience with the novel cold storage SherpaPak^TM system for donor heart transportation

Dejan Radakovic, Seymur Karimli, Kiril Penov, Ina Schade, Khaled Hamouda, Constanze Bening, Rainer G. Leyh, Ivan Aleksic

PDF Pages: 7227-7235 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Use of durable left ventricular assist devices for high-risk patients: Korean experience before insurance coverage

Jun Ho Lee, Ilkun Park, Heemoon Lee, Kiick Sung, Young Tak Lee, Darae Kim, Jeong Hoon Yang, Jin-Oh Choi, Eun-Seok Jeon, Yang Hyun Cho

PDF Pages: 7236-7244 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

The role of angiogenetic single-nucleotide polymorphisms in thymic malignancies and thymic benign lesions

Rossana Berardi, Gaia Goteri, Silvia Pagliaretta, Vittorio Paolucci, Francesca Morgese, Alessandro Conti, Majed Refai, Cecilia Pompili, Claudia Duranti, Giulia Marcantognini, Agnese Savini, Miriam Caramanti, Silvia Rinaldi, Mariangela Torniai, Matteo Santoni, Antonio Zizzi, Paola Mazzanti, Azzurra Onofri, Giulia Ricci, Marina Scarpelli

PDF Pages: 7245-7256 Full Text COI Form Open Access

The safety and feasibility of three-dimension single-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for the treatment of early-stage lung cancer

Yiyang Wang, Zhexin Wang, Feng Yao

PDF Pages: 7257-7265 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Bleeding is the most common cause of unplanned return to operating room after lung cancer surgeries

Jiagen Li, Qi Xue, Yushun Gao, Yousheng Mao, Jun Zhao, Shugeng Gao

PDF Pages: 7266-7271 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Utilities and placement skills of the incision protective sleeve in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)

Zhiyong Su, Chao Wu, Hongliang Bian, Zhiqiang Zhou, Tianshuo Jiang, Xin Zhao, Fangchao Liu, Yilei Zhang, Keli Lin, Qingshan Gao

PDF Pages: 7272-7280 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Reduced expression of circRNA novel_circ_0005280 and its clinical value in the diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer

Li Li, Meilin Du, Chao Wang, Ping He

PDF Pages: 7281-7289 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Consistency of genotyping data from simultaneously collected plasma circulating tumor DNA and tumor-DNA in lung cancer patients

Jiali Zhang, Aoran Dong, Shuzhan Li, Xiubao Ren, Xinwei Zhang

PDF Pages: 7290-7297 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

A new solution model for cardiac medical image segmentation

Hailong Shang, Shiwei Zhao, Hongdi Du, Jinggang Zhang, Wei Xing, Hailin Shen

PDF Pages: 7298-7312 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Plasma thymidylate synthase and dihydrofolate reductase mRNA levels as potential predictive biomarkers of pemetrexed sensitivity in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer

Tao Li, Jin-Bo Huang, Jun-Guo Lu, Rong Li, Yan Wang, Xiang-Rong Shi, Min-Xin Shi, Xiao-Dong Zhang

PDF Pages: 7313-7319 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Circulating miR-130 is a potential bio signature for early prognosis of acute myocardial infarction

Xiaodong Pan, Yanru He, Zhongpu Chen, Gaoliang Yan, Genshan Ma

PDF Pages: 7320-7325 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Low expression of long non-coding RNA ARAP1-AS1 can inhibit lung cancer proliferation by inducing G0/G1 cell cycle organization

Xinlu Tao, Yan Zhang, Jiaping Li, Zhengzheng Ni, Zheng Tao, Qi You, Zhijie He, Dengjun Huang, Shiying Zheng

PDF Pages: 7326-7336 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Effects of enteral nutrition support combined with enhanced recovery after surgery on the nutritional status, immune function, and prognosis of patients with esophageal cancer after Ivor-Lewis operation

Haibing Ding, Jin Xu, Jijun You, Haifeng Qin, Haitao Ma

PDF Pages: 7337-7345 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Lobectomy with high-position single-intercostal two-port video-assisted thoracoscope for non-small cell lung cancer is a safe and effective surgical procedure

Guofang Zhao, Xu Jiang, Fajiu Wang, Minghui Chu, Chenxu Zhang, Weidi Zhao, Minglei Yang, Xiang Xu, Enkuo Zheng, Junjun Ni, Liangwei Yang

PDF Pages: 7346-7354 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Bioinformatics analysis of differentially expressed genes in tumor and paracancerous tissues of patients with lung adenocarcinoma

Rong Yang, Yuwei Zhou, Chengli Du, Yihe Wu

PDF Pages: 7355-7364 Full Text Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

The prognostic value of peak arterial lactate levels within 72 h of lung transplantation in identifying patient outcome

Jingjing Xu, Zhong Qin, Yanjuan Wang, Chunxiao Hu, Guilong Wang, Zhengfeng Gu, Shengjie Yuan, Jingyu Chen, Dongxiao Huang, Zhiping Wang

PDF Pages: 7365-7373 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Association of renal cyst and type A acute aortic dissection with hypertension

Jinlan Bao, Shaoxin Zheng, Canxia Huang, Jun Tao, Ying Tang, Runlu Sun, Qi Guo, Jingfeng Wang, Yuling Zhang

PDF Pages: 7374-7386 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Consensus

International consensus statement on robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE)

Bin Li, Yang Yang, Alper Toker, Bentong Yu, Chang Hyun Kang, Ghulam Abbas, Harmik J. Soukiasian, Hecheng Li, Hiroyuki Daiko, Hongjing Jiang, Jianhua Fu, Jun Yi, Kemp Kernstine, Marcello Migliore, Michael Bouvet, Sara Ricciardi, Yin-Kai Chao, Yong-Hee Kim, Yun Wang, Zhentao Yu, Abbas E. Abbas, Inderpal S. Sarkaria, Zhigang Li, Cooperative Group of International Expert Consensus on Robot-assisted Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer

PDF Pages: 7387-7401 Full Text Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Review Article

The 100 most cited papers on thymic epithelial tumours: a bibliometric analysis

Guanghao Qiu, Fuqiang Wang, Hanlu Zhang, Yu Zheng, Zihao Wang, Yun Wang

PDF Pages: 7402-7415 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Cone beam CT imaging for bronchoscopy: a technical review

Randolph Setser, Gouthami Chintalapani, Krish Bhadra, Roberto F. Casal

PDF Pages: 7416-7428 Full Text Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Risk factors and predictors associated with the severity of COVID-19 in China: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression

Tao Zhang, Wei-Sen Huang, Weijie Guan, Ziying Hong, Jiabo Gao, Guoying Gao, Guofeng Wu, Yin-Yin Qin

PDF Pages: 7429-7441 Full Text Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Exercise-based interventions for Indigenous adults with chronic lung disease in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and USA: a systematic review

David P. Meharg, Kylie Gwynne, John Gilroy, Jennifer A. Alison

PDF Pages: 7442-7453 Full Text Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Narrative review of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2: update on genomic characteristics, transmissions and animal model

Zhaoyong Zhang, Lu Zhang, Airu Zhu, Yanqun Wang, Wenda Guan, Zhiqi Zeng, Jing Sun, Fang Li, Jingxian Zhao, Zifeng Yang, Jincun Zhao, Nanshan Zhong

PDF Pages: 7454-7466 Full Text Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Surgical Technique

Surgical staging and resection of malignant pleural mesothelioma

Lawrence B. Brown, Frank Corl, Shanda H. Blackmon

PDF Pages: 7467-7480 Full Text COI Form Open Access

iMDT Corner¹

Treatment of a lung lobectomy patient with severe post-surgical infection in the anterior thoracic wall by multiple debridement and drainage procedures: a case report

Jie Dai, Patrick Greiffenstein, Francesco Petrella, Jae Jun Kim, Giuseppe Marulli, Yong Fang, Yiming Zhou

PDF Pages: 7481-7487 Full Text Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Letter to the Editor

Pneumothorax as the presenting manifestation of COVID-19

Shahin Ayazi, Javad Zebarjadi, Andrew D. Grubic, Hamed Tahmasbi, Khosro Ayazi, Blair A. Jobe

PDF Pages: 7488-7493 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Effect of an unsupervised walking program on tolerance to exercise in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Roberto Martin-Deleon, Antonio Jurado-Garcia, Maria del Sol Arenas-De Larriva, Nuria Feu-Collado, Francisco Santos-Luna, Bernabe Jurado-Gamez

PDF Pages: 7494-7497 Full Text Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Endobronchial neurogenic tumor consisting of the features of a solitary circumscribed neuroma

Kazuya Tone, Takashi Yorozu, Yuta Hirano, Ryoko Sasaki, Taisuke Kazuyori, Akira Kojima, Kazuyoshi Kuwano

PDF Pages: 7498-7500 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Effect of genotype-guided strategy in East Asian vs. Caucasian patients after percutaneous coronary intervention: insight from the TAILOR-PCI trial

Hyun Kuk Kim, Dirk Sibbing, Young-Hoon Jeong

PDF Pages: 7501-7503 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Editorial of Cough Section²

2019 ERS cough guideline: consensus and controversy

Ruchong Chen, Zhongmin Qiu, Kefang Lai

PDF Pages: 7504-7514 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Editorial on Thymoma³

Revealing the mysteries of thymoma

Dragana Jovanovic, Semra Bilaceroglu

PDF Pages: 7515-7517 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Original Article on Thymoma³

The role of postoperative radiotherapy for thymomas: a multicentric retrospective evaluation from three Italian centers and review of the literature

Alessio Bruni, Alessandro Stefani, Marco Perna, Paolo Borghetti, Niccolò Giaj Levra, Elisa D’Angelo, Alessandra D’Onofrio, Laura Rubino, Luca Frassinelli, Viola Salvestrini, Matteo Mariotti, Filippo Alongi, Alessandro Gonfiotti, Lorenzo Livi, Vieri Scotti

PDF Pages: 7518-7530 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Review Article on Thymoma³

Epidemiology of thymoma

Anna L. Rich

PDF Pages: 7531-7535 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Genomic alterations in thymoma—molecular pathogenesis?

Felicitas Oberndorfer, Leonhard Müllauer

PDF Pages: 7536-7544 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Pathology of thymoma—where are we today?

Irshad Nabi Soomro

PDF Pages: 7545-7552 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Comparison of PD-L1 immunohistochemical assays and the significance of PD-L1 expression in thymoma

Shintaro Yokoyama, Hiroaki Miyoshi

PDF Pages: 7553-7560 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Correlation of genomic alterations and PD-L1 expression in thymoma

Dragana Jovanovic, Jelena Markovic, Vesna Ceriman, Jelena Peric, Sonja Pavlovic, Ivan Soldatovic

PDF Pages: 7561-7570 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Autoimmune disorders and paraneoplastic syndromes in thymoma

Torsten Gerriet Blum, Daniel Misch, Jens Kollmeier, Sebastian Thiel, Torsten T. Bauer

PDF Pages: 7571-7590 Full Text COI Form Open Access

The role of radiological imaging for masses in the prevascular mediastinum in clinical practice

Helmut Prosch, Sebastian Röhrich, Zeynep Nilufer Tekin, Lukas Ebner

PDF Pages: 7591-7597 Full Text COI Form Open Access

How to obtain adequate biopsy specımen in suspected thymic tumors

Semra Bilaçeroğlu

PDF Pages: 7598-7606 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Classification and staging of thymoma

Till Markowiak, Hans-Stefan Hofmann, Michael Ried

PDF Pages: 7607-7612 Full Text COI Form Open Access

When to suspect a thymoma: clinical point of view

Fabrizio Minervini, Gregor J. Kocher

PDF Pages: 7613-7618 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Surgical treatment strategies for invasive thymoma

Soichiro Funaki, Yasushi Shintani, Eriko Fukui, Ryu Kanzaki, Takashi Kanou, Naoko Ose, Masato Minami, Meinoshin Okumura

PDF Pages: 7619-7625 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Multimodality approach in treatment of thymic tumors

Akif Turna, İsmail Sarbay

PDF Pages: 7626-7634 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Immunotherapy for thymoma

Marko Jakopovic, Lela Bitar, Fran Seiwerth, Ante Marusic, Kristina Krpina, Miroslav Samarzija

PDF Pages: 7635-7641 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Editorial on Advance in Bronchoscopy for Peripheral Pulmonary Diseases⁴

Introduction to Journal of Thoracic Disease new column of advance in bronchoscopy for peripheral pulmonary diseases

Jiayuan Sun

PDF Pages: 7642-7644 Full Text COI Form Open Access

Original Article on Advance in Bronchoscopy for Peripheral Pulmonary Diseases⁴

Scoring model of convex probe endobronchial ultrasound multimodal imaging in differentiating benign and malignant lung lesions

Xinxin Zhi, Lei Wang, Junxiang Chen, Xiaoxuan Zheng, Ying Li, Jiayuan Sun

PDF Pages: 7645-7655 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Diagnostic value of radial endobronchial ultrasonographic features in predominant solid peripheral pulmonary lesions

Xiaoxuan Zheng, Lei Wang, Jie Chen, Fangfang Xie, Yifeng Jiang, Jiayuan Sun

PDF Pages: 7656-7665 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

The value of virtual bronchoscopic navigation and radial endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial lung cryobiopsies for pulmonary lymphangitic carcinomatosis

Lingling Pang, Tingshu Jiang, Xueping Liu, Zhan Li, Shenchun Zou, Pengfei Yu

PDF Pages: 7666-7674 Full Text Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Review Article on Advance in Bronchoscopy for Peripheral Pulmonary Diseases⁴

Diagnostic value of ultrathin bronchoscopy in peripheral pulmonary lesions: a narrative review

Masahide Oki, Hideo Saka

PDF Pages: 7675-7682 Full Text Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Improving diagnostic yield of navigational bronchoscopy for peripheral pulmonary lesions: a review of advancing technology

Ajay Wagh, Elliot Ho, Septimiu Murgu, Douglas Kyle Hogarth

PDF Pages: 7683-7690 Full Text Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Disclosure:

1. The series “iMDT Corner” was commissioned by the editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any funding or sponsorship.

2. The series “Cough Section” was commissioned by the editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any funding or sponsorship. Woo-Jung Song is serving as an unpaid Section Editor for the series.

3. The series “Thymoma” was commissioned by the editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any funding or sponsorship. Dragana Jovanovic and Semra Bilaceroglu served as the unpaid Guest Editors for the series.

4. The series “Advance in Bronchoscopy for Peripheral Pulmonary Diseases” was commissioned by the editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any funding or sponsorship.

Original Article

Nonintubated thoracoscopic lung resection: a 3-year experience with 285 cases in a single institution

Ke-Cheng Chen, Ya-Jung Cheng, Ming-Hui Hung, Yu-Ding Tseng, Jin-Shing Chen

Delays in the diagnosis of lung cancer

Peter M Ellis, Rachel Vandermeer

The diagnostic utility of endobronchial ultrasonography with a guide sheath and tomosynthesis images for ground glass opacity pulmonary lesions

Takehiro Izumo, Shinji Sasada, Christine Chavez, Takaaki Tsuchida

Hydration with magnesium and mannitol without furosemide prevents the nephrotoxicity induced by cisplatin and pemetrexed in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer

Keiko Muraki, Ryo Koyama, Yuichiro Honma, Shigehiro Yagishita, Takehito Shukuya, Rina Ohashi, Fumiyuki Takahashi, Kenji Kido, Shin-ichiro Iwakami, Shinichi Sasaki, Akihiko Iwase, Kazuhisa Takahashi

Local control rates with five-fraction stereotactic body radiotherapy for oligometastatic cancer to the lung

Deepinder Singh, Yuhchyau Chen, Mary Z. Hare, Kenneth Y. Usuki, Hong Zhang, Thomas Lundquist, Neil Joyce, Michael C. Schell, Michael T. Milano

Theoretical models of carcinogenic particle deposition and clearance in children’s lungs

Robert Sturm

A novel paradigm in the treatment of oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer

Salma K Jabbour, Parima Daroui, Dirk Moore, Edward Licitra, Molly Gabel, Joseph Aisner

Radiotherapy for a second primary lung cancer arising post-pneumonectomy: planning considerations and clinical outcomes

Sashendra Senthi, Cornelis J. A. Haasbeek, Frank J. Lagerwaard, Wilko F. Verbakel, Patricia F. de Haan, Ben J. Slotman, Suresh Senan

Impact of metformin use on survival in locally-advanced, inoperable non-small cell lung cancer treated with definitive chemoradiation

Inaya Ahmed, Adam Ferro, Alan Cohler, John Langenfeld, Sujani G. Surakanti, Joseph Aisner, Wei Zou, Bruce G. Haffty, Salma K. Jabbour

Utility of EBUS-TBNA for diagnosis of mediastinal tuberculous lymphadenitis: a multicentre Australian experience

James Geake, Gary Hammerschlag, Phan Nguyen, Peter Wallbridge, Grant A. Jenkin, Tony M. Korman, Barton Jennings, Douglas F. Johnson, Louis B. Irving, Michael Farmer, Daniel P. Steinfort

Comparative outcomes of squamous and non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients in phase II studies of ASA404 (DMXAA) – retrospective analysis of pooled data

Mark J McKeage, Michael B Jameson, AS1404-201 Study Group Investigators

High prevalence of gene abnormalities in young patients with lung cancer

Osamu Nagashima, Rina Ohashi, Yasuko Yoshioka, Ai Inagaki, Manabu Tajima, Yoshika Koinuma, Shin-ichiro Iwakami, Akihiko Iwase, Shinichi Sasaki, Shigeru Tominaga, Kazuhisa Takahashi

Home-based exercise: promising rehabilitation for symptom relief, improved functional status and quality of life for post-surgical lung cancer patients

Amy J. Hoffman, Ruth Ann Brintnall, Alexander von Eye, Lee W. Jones, Gordon Alderink, Lawrence H. Patzelt, Jean K. Brown

Thoracic malignant solitary fibrous tumors: A population-based study of survival

Michael T Milano, Deepinder P Singh, Hong Zhang

Differences in chemosensitivity between primary and paired metastatic lung cancer tissues: In vitro analysis based on the collagen gel droplet embedded culture drug test (CD-DST)

Masahiko Higashiyama, Jiro Okami, Jun Maeda, Toshiteru Tokunaga, Ayako Fujiwara, Ken Kodama, Fumio Imamura, Hisayuki Kobayashi

High-resolution CT findings of patients with pulmonary nocardiosis

Naoki Tsujimoto, Takeshi Saraya, Ken Kikuchi, Saori Takata, Yasuyuki Kurihara, Sayuki Hiraoka, Hiroshi Makino, Shota Yonetani, Koji Araki, Haruyuki Ishii, Hajime Takizawa, Hajime Goto

Signal stratification of autoantibody levels in serum samples and its application to the early detection of lung cancer

Graham F. Healey, Stephen Lam, Peter Boyle, Geoffrey Hamilton-Fairley, Laura J. Peek, John F. R. Robertson

Review Article

Molecular biology of lung cancer

Wendy A. Cooper, David C. L. Lam, Sandra A. O’Toole, John D. Minna

Nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary infections

Margaret M. Johnson, John A. Odell

Treatment of advanced non small cell lung cancer

Maria Anna Bareschino, Clorinda Schettino, Antonio Rossi, Paolo Maione, Paola Claudia Sacco, Rosario Zeppa, Cesare Gridelli

Chemotherapy advances in small-cell lung cancer

Bryan A. Chan, Jermaine I. G. Coward

Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy: A descriptive analysis

Steven Leong, Hong Ju, Henry Marshall, Rayleen Bowman, Ian Yang, Ann-Maree Ree, Cathy Saxon, Kwun M Fong

Targeted therapy in lung cancer: IPASS and beyond, keeping abreast of the explosion of targeted therapies for lung cancer

Peter Savas, Brett Hughes, Benjamin Solomon

Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for stage I NSCLC: Recent advances and controversies

Suresh Senan, David A. Palma, Frank J. Lagerwaard

The anticipation and management of air leaks and residual spaces post lung resection

Michael Rolf Mueller, Beatrice A. Marzluf

Exploiting sensitization windows of opportunity in hyper and hypo-fractionated radiation therapy

Anish Prasanna, Mansoor M. Ahmed, Mohammed Mohiuddin, C. Norman Coleman

Ultrasound techniques in the evaluation of the mediastinum, part 2: mediastinal lymph node anatomy and diagnostic reach of ultrasound techniques, clinical work up of neoplastic and inflammatory mediastinal lymphadenopathy using ultrasound techniques and how to learn mediastinal endosonography

Christian Jenssen, Jouke Tabe Annema, Paul Clementsen, Xin-Wu Cui, Mathias Maximilian Borst, Christoph Frank Dietrich

Revisiting signs, strengths and weaknesses of Standard Chest Radiography in patients of Acute Dyspnea in the Emergency Department

Luciano Cardinale, Giovanni Volpicelli, Alessandro Lamorte, Jessica Martino, Andrea veltri

The continuing role of chemotherapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer in the targeted therapy era

Zarnie Lwin, Jonathan W. Riess, David Gandara

MicroRNAs in mesothelioma: from tumour suppressors and biomarkers to therapeutic targets

Glen Reid

Pleural controversies: image guided biopsy vs. thoracoscopy for undiagnosed pleural effusions?

Giles Dixon, Duneesha de Fonseka, Nick Maskell

Preservation solutions for cardiac and pulmonary donor grafts: a review of the current literature

Nicholas Latchana, Joshua R. Peck, Bryan Whitson, Sylvester M. Black

Active-specific immunotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer

Hauke Winter, Natasja K. van den Engel, Margareta Rusan, Nina Schupp, Christian H. Poehlein, Hong Ming Hu, Rudolf A. Hatz, Walter J. Urba, Karl Walter Jauch, Bernard A. Fox, Dominik Rüttinger

Advanced imaging in COPD: insights into pulmonary pathophysiology

Stephen Milne, Gregory G. King

Advances in lung adenocarcinoma classification: a summary of the new international multidisciplinary classification system (IASLC/ATS/ERS)

Elizabeth R. Tang, Andrew M. Schreiner, Bradley B. Pua

Diagnosis and early detection of COPD using spirometry

David P. Johns, Julia A.E. Walters, E. Haydn Walters

Improving radiotherapy planning, delivery accuracy, and normal tissue sparing using cutting edge technologies

Carri K. Glide-Hurst, Indrin J. Chetty

Pediatric lung transplantation: indications and outcomes

Stephen Kirkby, Don Hayes Jr

Staging lymph node metastases from lung cancer in the mediastinum

Mario D. Terán, Malcolm V. Brock

JTD special edition ‘Hot Topics in COPD’—The microbiome in COPD

Daniel C. Chambers, Shaan L. Gellatly, Philip Hugenholtz, Philip M. Hansbro

Lung donor selection criteria

John Chaney, Yoshikazu Suzuki, Edward Cantu III, Victor van Berkel

Molecular markers to predict clinical outcome and radiation induced toxicity in lung cancer

Joshua D. Palmer, Nicholas G. Zaorsky, Matthew Witek, Bo Lu

Lung cancer screening: identifying the high risk cohort

Michael W. Marcus, Olaide Y. Raji, John K. Field

Pleural controversies: indwelling pleural catheter vs. pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusions

Marc Fortin, Alain Tremblay

New techniques for assessing response after hypofractionated radiotherapy for lung cancer

Sarah A. Mattonen, Kitty Huang, Aaron D. Ward, Suresh Senan, David A. Palma

Supportive and palliative care for lung cancer patients

Patsy Yates, Penelope Schofield, Isabella Zhao, David Currow

Editorial

Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) for lung cancer: What does the future hold?

Billy W Loo Jr

Case Report

First report of a novel liquid nitrogen adjustable flow spray cryotherapy (SCT) device in the bronchoscopic treatment of disease of the central tracheo-bronchial airways

Robert Browning, Scott Parrish, Saiyad Sarkar, J. Francis Turner Jr

Severe amiodarone induced pulmonary toxicity

Nicholas Nacca, Castigliano M Bhamidipati, Luke S Yuhico, Sowmya Pinnamaneni, Tamas Szombathy

Guideline

Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma

Nico van Zandwijk, Christopher Clarke, Douglas Henderson, A. William Musk, Kwun Fong, Anna Nowak, Robert Loeragan, Brian McCaughan, Michael Boyer, Malcolm Feigen, David Currow, Penelope Schofeild, Beth Ivimey Nick Pavlakis, Jocelyn McLean, Henry Marshall, Steven Leong, Victoria Keena, Andrew Penman

Research Highlight

Gene expression assays as prognostic and predictive markers in early stage non-small cell lung cancer

Tom Donnem, Roy M Bremnes, Lill-Tove Busund, Sigve Andersen, Francesco Pezzella

Short Communication

The sleep apnea cardiovascular endpoints (SAVE) trial: Rationale and start-up phase

R Doug McEvoy, Craig S Anderson, Nick A Antic, Baoyuan Chen, Quanying He, Emma Heeley, Shaoguang Huang, Yining Huang, Jiguang Wang, Nanshan Zhong

Circulating Tumor Cells

Detection methods of circulating tumor cells

Klaus Pantel, Catherine Alix-Panabières

Original Article

Esophageal cancer incidence and mortality in China, 2009

Wanqing Chen, Yutong He, Rongshou Zheng, Siwei Zhang, Hongmei Zeng, Xiaonong Zou, Jie He

Catamenial pneumothorax: a rare entity? Report of 5 cases and review of the literature

Aikaterini N. Visouli, Kaid Darwiche, Andreas Mpakas, Paul Zarogoulidis, Antonios Papagiannis, Kosmas Tsakiridis, Nikolaos Machairiotis, Aikaterini Stylianaki, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Nicolaos Courcoutsakis, Konstantinos Zarogoulidis

Clinicopathological and prognostic significance of programmed cell death ligand1 (PD-L1) expression in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: a meta-analysis

Zhen-Kui Pan, Feng Ye, Xuan Wu, Han-Xiang An, Jing-Xun Wu

Nonintubated thoracoscopic lung resection: a 3-year experience with 285 cases in a single institution

Ke-Cheng Chen, Ya-Jung Cheng, Ming-Hui Hung, Yu-Ding Tseng, Jin-Shing Chen

Review Article

Molecular biology of lung cancer

Wendy A. Cooper, David C. L. Lam, Sandra A. O’Toole, John D. Minna

Asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap syndrome (ACOS): current literature review

Antonis Papaiwannou, Paul Zarogoulidis, Konstantinos Porpodis, Dionysios Spyratos, Ioannis Kioumis, Georgia Pitsiou, Athanasia Pataka, Kosmas Tsakiridis, Stamatis Arikas, Andreas Mpakas, Theodora Tsiouda, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Ioanna Kougioumtzi, Nikolaos Machairiotis, Stavros Siminelakis, Alexander Kolettas, George Kessis, Thomas Beleveslis, Konstantinos Zarogoulidis

Nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary infections

Margaret M. Johnson, John A. Odell

Epidemiology and prognosis of breast cancer in young women

Hussein A. Assi, Katia E. Khoury, Haifa Dbouk, Lana E. Khalil, Tarek H. Mouhieddine, Nagi S. El Saghir

Treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

Konstantinos Zarogoulidis, Paul Zarogoulidis, Kaid Darwiche, Efimia Boutsikou, Nikolaos Machairiotis, Kosmas Tsakiridis, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Ioanna Kougioumtzi, Ilias Karapantzos, Haidong Huang, Dionysios Spyratos

Current management of esophageal cancer

Xavier Benoit D’Journo, Pascal Alexandre Thomas

A review of current and novel therapies for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Rokhsara Rafii, Maya M. Juarez, Timothy E. Albertson, Andrew L. Chan

Pneumothorax after transthoracic needle biopsy of lung lesions under CT guidance

Tatjana Boskovic, Jelena Stanic, Slobodanka Pena-Karan, Paul Zarogoulidis, Kostas Drevelegas, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Nikolaos Machairiotis, Andreas Mpakas, Kosmas Tsakiridis, Georgios Kesisis, Theodora Tsiouda, Ioanna Kougioumtzi, Stamatis Arikas, Konstantinos Zarogoulidis

Right heart failure post left ventricular assist device implantation

Mihalis Argiriou, Styliani-Maria Kolokotron, Timothy Sakellaridis, Orestis Argiriou, Christos Charitos, Paul Zarogoulidis, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Ioanna Kougioumtzi, Nikolaos Machairiotis, Theodora Tsiouda, Kosmas Tsakiridis, Konstantinos Zarogoulidis

The pivotal role of pathology in the management of lung cancer

Morgan R. Davidson, Adi F. Gazdar, Belinda E. Clarke

Cardiac regeneration: current therapies—future concepts

Stefanie A. Doppler, Marcus-André Deutsch, Rüdiger Lange, Markus Krane

Mechanistic impact of outdoor air pollution on asthma and allergic diseases

Shau-Ku Huang, Qingling Zhang, Zhiming Qiu, Kian Fan Chung

Guideline

Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma

Uniportal VATS

Geometrical Characteristics of Uniportal VATS

Luca Bertolaccini, Gaetano Rocco, Andrea Viti, Alberto Terzi

Review Article on Respiratory Sleep Disorders

Obstructive sleep apnea is a common disorder in the population—a review on the epidemiology of sleep apnea

Karl A. Franklin, Eva Lindberg

Review Article on Pollutional Haze

The impact of PM2.5 on the human respiratory system

Yu-Fei Xing, Yue-Hua Xu, Min-Hua Shi, Yi-Xin Lian

Original Article

Suppressive oligonucleotides inhibit inflammation in a murine model of mechanical ventilator induced lung injury

Julia Scheiermann, Dennis M. Klinman

Five-year update on the mouse model of orthotopic lung transplantation: Scientific uses, tricks of the trade, and tips for success

Xue Lin, Wenjun Li, Jiaming Lai, Mikio Okazaki, Seiichiro Sugimoto, Sumiharu Yamamoto, Xingan Wang, Andrew E. Gelman, Daniel Kreisel, Alexander Sasha Krupnick

A pooled analysis of advanced nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer patients with stable treated brain metastases in two phase II trials receiving bevacizumab and pemetrexed as second-line therapy

Matthew A. Gubens, Jody C. Chuang, Wallace Akerley, Corey J. Langer, Christelle Clément- Duchêne, Melanie San Pedro-Salcedo, A. Dimitrios Colevas, Konstantin Dragnev, Mark A. Socinski, Heather A. Wakelee

Pleurodesis: a comparison of two sclerosing agents for pleural effusions in Mozambique

Ivo Figueiredo, Anilsa Cossa, Anila Hassane, José Sousa, Joaquim Pondo, João Teixeira, Kevan Akrami, Susannah K. Graves, Atul Malhotra, Elizabete A. Nunes

Review Article

Atypical antibody responses to influenza

Dalton Hermans, Richard J. Webby, Sook-San Wong

What can individuals do to reduce personal health risks from air pollution?

Robert Laumbach, Qingyu Meng, Howard Kipen

The role of rotors in atrial fibrillation

David E. Krummen, Vijay Swarup, Sanjiv M. Narayan

Current outcomes of off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: evidence from randomized controlled trials

Daniel Fudulu, Umberto Benedetto, Gustavo Guida Pecchinenda, Pierpaolo Chivasso, Vito Domenico Bruno, Filippo Rapetto, Alan Bryan, Gianni Davide Angelini

Staging lymph node metastases from lung cancer in the mediastinum

Mario D. Terán, Malcolm V. Brock

Improving radiotherapy planning, delivery accuracy, and normal tissue sparing using cutting edge technologies

Carri K. Glide-Hurst, Indrin J. Chetty

Esophageal cancer: staging system and guidelines for staging and treatment

Mark F. Berry

Implementing the new IASLC/ATS/ERS classification of lung adenocarcinomas: results from international and Chinese cohorts

Ming-Ching Lee, Kyuichi Kadota, Daniel Buitrago, David R. Jones, Prasad S. Adusumilli

Premature menopause in young breast cancer: effects on quality of life and treatment interventions

Shoshana M. Rosenberg, Ann H. Partridge

Strategies for the acquisition of transcriptional and epigenetic information in single cells

Guang Li, Elda Dzilic, Nick Flores, Alice Shieh, Sean M. Wu

The role of transforming growth factor (TGF)-β in the infarcted myocardium

Nikolaos G. Frangogiannis

Utility of cardiac magnetic resonance for evaluation of mitral regurgitation prior to mitral valve surgery

Neil K. Mehta, Jiwon Kim, Jonathan Y. Siden, Sara Rodriguez-Diego, Javid Alakbarli, Antonino Di Franco, Jonathan W. Weinsaft

Adjuvant, neoadjuvant, and definitive radiation therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma

Gwendolyn Cramer, Charles B. Simone II, Theresa M. Busch, Keith A. Cengel

Editorial

Conservatism strikes back: later is better than earlier dialysis for acute kidney injury

Dana Bielopolski, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh

Sleep and critical illness: bridging the two pillars at the ATS 2016

Stuti J. Jaiswal, Atul Malhotra, Robert L. Owens

Temperature and duration targets during post-arrest care: choosing the right prescription for the right patient

John C. Greenwood, Abhishek Bhardwaj, Benjamin S. Abella

Examining the paradox of high high-density lipoprotein and elevated cardiovascular risk

Kavisha Singh, Anand Rohatgi

Mortality after red blood cell transfusions from previously pregnant donors: complexities in the interpretation of large data

Susan Kuldanek, Christopher C. Silliman

Optogenetic tools for cell biological applications

Abhirup Mukherjee, Nicole A. Repina, David V. Schaffer, Ravi S. Kane

Editorial on “Transcription factor SPZ1 promotes TWIST-mediated epithelial—mesenchymal transition and oncogenesis in human liver cancer”

Dan J. Raz

Editorial on “Can CT-PET and endoscopic assessment post-neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy predict residual disease in esophageal cancer”

Chia-Ju Liu, Wei Lu

The hemodynamic impact of acute nasal continuous positive airway pressure treatment in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: is it safe?

Bo Xu, Reena Mehra

Tumor spread through air space (STAS) is an important predictor of clinical outcome in stage IA lung adenocarcinoma

Hui-Zi Chen, Erin M. Bertino, Kai He

Antiviral prophylaxis of cytomegalovirus reactivation in immune competent patients—the jury remains out

Sara A. Mansfield, Charles H. Cook

Allosterically targeting EGFR drug-resistance gatekeeper mutations

Nicholas Spellmon, Chunying Li, Zhe Yang

Imaging homeostatic sleep pressure and circadian rhythm in the human brain

Zhuo Fang, Hengyi Rao

Tumor mutational burden (TMB) as a biomarker of response to immunotherapy in small cell lung cancer

Yanis Boumber

Letter to the Editor

Response to “VATS vs. thoracotomy regarding postoperative chronic pain”

Emine Ozgur Bayman, Kalpaj R. Parekh, John Keech, Timothy J. Brennan

The role of a decision analysis in treatment of T2N0 esophageal cancer

Tara R. Semenkovich, Bryan F. Meyers, Benjamin D. Kozower, Varun Puri

Case Report

Intraoperative near-infrared imaging can identify subcentimeter colorectal cancer lung metastases during pulmonary metastasectomy

Andrew D. Newton, Jarrod D. Predina, Lydia G. Frenzel-Sulyok, Michael H. Shin, Yiqing Wang, Sunil Singhal

A novel strategy for cardiopulmonary support during lung transplantation

Ramiro Fernandez, Malcolm M. DeCamp, Ankit Bharat

Short Communication

Predictive value of pulmonary function measures for short-term outcomes following lung resection: analysis of a single high-volume institution

Lauren J. Taylor, Walker A. Julliard, James D. Maloney

Review Article on Left Ventricular Assist Devices

Left ventricular assist device driveline infections: recent advances and future goals

Anne-Marie Leuck

Short Communication of Interventional Pulmonology Corner

Endobronchial ultrasound—guidance for interstitial photodynamic therapy of locally advanced lung cancer—a new interventional concept

Kassem Harris, Emily Oakley, David Bellnier, Gal Shafirstein

Commentary

Insights into ascending aortic aneurysm pathogenesis using in vivo and ex vivo imaging systems in angiotensin II-infused mice

Mary B. Sheppard, Alan Daugherty, Hong Lu

Management of screening-detected stage I lung cancer

Raymond U. Osarogiagbon

New strategies in esophageal carcinoma: promises and problems

Zhaohui Xiong, Jingxi He, Xiaoxin Luke Chen

Below are the latest Journal of Thoracic Disease articles published online ahead of print publication.

Review Article

Teaching non-technical skills: the patient centered approach

Gianluca Casali, Gareth Lock, Nuria M. Novoa

Mobility during and after training: autobiography and advice to early career colleagues

Carolina Torres, Anna Elisabeth Frick

Harmonisation of respiratory medicine: the success story of European curriculum development

Daiana Stolz, Nathalie Tabin, Amy Farr

Structured and evidence-based training of technical skills in respiratory medicine and thoracic surgery

Pia Iben Pietersen, Christian B. Laursen, René Horsleben Petersen, Lars Konge

How to prepare for academic leadership: scientific training curriculum

Isabelle Opitz, Thorsten Walles

Prophylactic cranial irradiation in non-small cell lung cancer: evidence and future development

Justyna Chalubinska-Fendler, Lucyna Kepka

Auditorium of the future: e learning platform

Hasan F. Batirel, Jalal Assouad, Harry Etienne, Xavier Benoit D’Journo

Why do we need harmonization in thoracic surgery: a view from above by the European Union of Medical Specialists

Toni Lerut, Dirk Van Raemdonck, Gilbert Massard

Management of life-threatening hemoptysis in the ICU

Ananth V. Charya, Van K. Holden, Edward M. Pickering

Insights from advancements and pathbreaking research on the minimally invasive treatment of atrial fibrillation

Anna Witkowska, Piotr Suwalski

The role of pulmonary metastasectomy for pulmonary metastasis from head and neck cancer

Satoshi Shiono

Radiotherapy for brain metastases from small-cell lung cancer in distinct clinical indications and scenarios

Lucyna Kepka, Joanna Socha, Beata Sas-Korczynska

Pulmonary metastasectomy: limits to credibility

Tom Treasure, Fergus Macbeth

Foreign body aspiration

Divyansh Bajaj, Ashutosh Sachdeva, Desh Deepak

Pulmonary metastasectomy in germ cell tumors and prostate cancer

Federico Raveglia, Lorenzo Rosso, Mario Nosotti, Giuseppe Cardillo, Gabrielle Maffeis, Marco Scarci

Pulmonary metastasectomy in the era of targeted therapy and immunotherapy

Christopher Y. Bong, B. Mark Smithers, Terence C. Chua

Pulmonary metastasectomy in renal cell carcinoma: a mainstay of multidisciplinary treatment

Joseph Seitlinger, Mathilde Prieto, Joelle Siat, Stéphane Renaud

Lymphadenectomy in pulmonary metastasectomy

Stefan Welter, Varun Gupta, Ioannis Kyritsis

The epidemiology and biology of pulmonary metastases

William D. Gerull, Varun Puri, Benjamin D. Kozower

Managing complications of pleural procedures

John G. Williams, Andrew D. Lerner

An evolving role for endobronchial ultrasonography in the intensive care unit

Or Kalchiem-Dekel, Saamia Hossain, Cosmin Gauran, Jason A. Beattie, Bryan C. Husta, Robert P. Lee, Mohit Chawla

Wound care management: tracheostomy and gastrostomy

Sammar Alsunaid, Van K. Holden, Akshay Kohli, Jose Diaz, Lindsay B. O’Meara

The intersection of bronchoscopy and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Julie Lin, Laura Frye

Outcomes of robotic esophagectomy

Amy Young, José María Alvarez Gallesio, David B. Sewell, Rebecca Carr, Daniela Molena

Pulmonary metastasectomy in colorectal carcinoma

Paul Beckers, Lawek Berzenji, Suresh K. Yogeswaran, Patrick Lauwers, Giada Bilotta, Nikol Shkarpa, Jeroen Hendriks, Paul E. Van Schil

Medical thoracoscopy in intensive care unit

Sanket Thakore, Abdul Hamid Alraiyes, Fayez Kheir

An overview of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement in the intensive care unit

Margaret Wei, Elliot Ho, Pravachan Hegde

Minimally invasive tricuspid valve surgery

Abdelrahman Abdelbar, Ayman Kenawy, Joseph Zacharias

Anesthesia for minimally invasive cardiac surgery

Alexander White, Chinmay Patvardhan, Florian Falter

From less invasive to minimal invasive extracorporeal circulation

Kyriakos Anastasiadis, Polychronis Antonitsis, Apostolos Deliopoulos, Helena Argiriadou

Minimally invasive and robotic coronary artery bypass grafting—a 25-year review

Johannes Bonatti, Stephanie Wallner, Ingo Crailsheim, Martin Grabenwöger, Bernhard Winkler

Combination of immunotherapy and radiotherapy in the treatment of brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer

Rafal Suwinski

Patient selection and preoperative evaluation of percutaneous dilation tracheostomy in the intensive care unit

Mark Barash, Jonathan S. Kurman

Proton beam radiotherapy for patients with early-stage and advanced lung cancer: a narrative review with contemporary clinical recommendations

Jennifer S. Chiang, Nathan Y. Yu, Thomas B. Daniels, Wei Liu, Steven E. Schild, Terence T. Sio

Endoscopic vein harvesting

Enoch Akowuah, Daniel Burns, Joseph Zacharias, Bilal H. Kirmani

Ultrasound use in the ICU for interventional pulmonology procedures

Ivana Milojevic, Kewakebt Lemma, Rahul Khosla

Overview of the outcomes of robotic segmentectomy and lobectomy

Giulia Veronesi, Pierluigi Novellis, Gianluca Perroni

Minimally invasive resection of benign cardiac tumors

Ayman Kenawy, Abdelrahman Abdelbar, Joseph Zacharias

Robotic mitral valve surgery: a review and tips for safely negotiating the learning curve

Caroline Toolan, Kenneth Palmer, Omar Al-Rawi, Tim Ridgway, Paul Modi

Radiotherapy of brain metastasis from lung cancer in limited resource settings

Jai Prakash Agarwal, Anil Tibdewal, Sulagna Mohanty, Naveen Mummudi

Training residents in robotic thoracic surgery

Evan T. Alicuben, Sean C. Wightman, Kimberly A. Shemanski, Elizabeth A. David, Scott M. Atay, Anthony W. Kim

Coagulation disorders and thromboembolic disease in COVID-19: review of current evidence in search of a better approach

Alberto García-Ortega, David de la Rosa, Grace Oscullo, Diego Castillo-Villegas, Raquel López-Reyes, Miguel Ángel Martínez-García

Hippocampal avoidance in prophylactic cranial irradiation for small cell lung cancer: benefits and pitfalls

Aswin George Abraham, Wilson Roa

Minimally invasive ventricular assist device implantation

Ameen Al-Naamani, Florian Fahr, Asim Khan, Christian Bireta, Michael Nozdrzykowski, Stefan Feder, Nikhil Deshmukh, Manal Jubeh, Sandra Eifert, Khalil Jawad, Uwe Schulz, Michael A. Borger, Diyar Saeed

Robotic first rib resection for thoracic outlet syndrome

Farid Gharagozloo, Nabhan Atiquzzaman, Mark Meyer, Barbara Tempesta, Scott Werden

Managing complications of percutaneous tracheostomy and gastrostomy

Aline N. Zouk, Hitesh Batra

The critical role of learning from investigating and debriefing adverse events

Siva Raja, Virginia R. Litle

Therapeutic bronchoscopy facilitates liberation from mechanical ventilation and improves quality of life for critically ill patients with central airway obstruction

Bryan S. Benn

WBRT for brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer: for whom and when?—Contemporary point of view

Beata Sas-Korczynska, Monika Rucinska

Local ablative therapy of brain metastasis from non-small cell lung cancer: benefits and limitations

Felipe de Azevedo Rosas, Sérgio Leonardo Favareto, Douglas Guedes de Castro

Radiotherapy in brain metastases from EGFR-mutated non-small cell lung cancer

Shruti Bhandari, Neal Dunlap, Goetz Kloecker

Preoperative evaluation and indications for pulmonary metastasectomy

Ryu Kanzaki, Eriko Fukui, Takashi Kanou, Naoko Ose, Soichiro Funaki, Masato Minami, Yasushi Shintani, Meinoshin Okumura

Right ventricular failure after left ventricular assist device implantation: a review of the literature

Valeria Lo Coco, Maria Elena De Piero, Giulio Massimi, Giovanni Chiarini, Giuseppe M. Raffa, Mariusz Kowalewski, Jos Maessen, Roberto Lorusso

State of the art: percutaneous tracheostomy in the intensive care unit

Christian Ghattas, Sammar Alsunaid, Edward M. Pickering, Van K. Holden

Beyond the learning curve: a review of complex cases in robotic thoracic surgery

Travis C. Geraci, Joshua Scheinerman, David Chen, Amie Kent, Costas Bizekis, Robert J. Cerfolio, Michael D. Zervos

Results of redo pulmonary metastasectomy

Vincenzo Ambrogi, Alessandro Tamburrini, Riccardo Tajé

Multimodal and palliative treatment of patients with pulmonary metastases

Natalie Baldes, Michael Eberlein, Servet Bölükbas

Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery

Yasir Abu-Omar, Ibrahim T. Fazmin, Jason M. Ali, Marc P. Pelletier

Management of brain metastases in elderly patients with lung cancer

Joanna Socha, Anna Rychter, Lucyna Kepka

Robotic lobectomy: how to teach thoracic residents

Ricardo Mingarini Terra, Pedro Henrique Cunha Leite, Alberto Jorge Monteiro Dela Vega

Does a thoracoscopic approach provide better outcomes for pulmonary metastases?

Aizemaiti Rusidanmu, Wenjie Chin, Jinming Xu, Luming Wang, Zhehao He, Xiayi Lv, Jian Hu

Supportive care for patients with brain metastases from lung cancer

Akanksha Sharma, Maciej M. Mrugala

Global status of the robotic thoracic surgery

Ricardo Mingarini Terra, Pedro Henrique Cunha Leite, Alberto Jorge Monteiro Dela Vega

Original Article

Pulmonary metastasectomy in soft tissue sarcomas: a systematic review

Davor Stamenovic, Peter Hohenberger, Eric Roessner

Quality assessment of robot assisted thoracic surgical resection of non-small cell lung cancer: nodal upstaging and mediastinal recurrence

Ghada M. Shahin, Besir Topal, Sjaak Pouwels, Thanasie L. Markou, Rody Boon, Jos A. Stigt

Chronic chest pain and paresthesia after video-assisted thoracoscopy for primary pneumothorax

Maria Cattoni, Nicola Rotolo, Maria Giovanna Mastromarino, Giuseppe Cardillo, Mario Nosotti, Paolo Mendogni, Alessandro Rizzi, Federico Raveglia, Alessandra Siciliani, Erino Angelo Rendina, Lucio Cagini, Alberto Matricardi, Pier Luigi Filosso, Erika Passone, Stefano Margaritora, Maria Letizia Vita, Pietro Bertoglio, Andrea Viti, Lorenzo Dominioni, Andrea Imperatori

Patients with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can generate sufficient inspiratory flows via Easyhaler^® dry powder inhaler: a pooled analysis of two randomized controlled trials

L. Pekka Malmberg, Anna S. Pelkonen, Ville Vartiainen, Mikko Vahteristo, Satu Lähelmä, Rain Jõgi

Femoral arterial cannulation remains a safe and reliable option for aortic dissection repair

Anthony Lemaire, Joshua Chao, Lauren Salgueiro, Hirohisa Ikegami, Leonard Y. Lee

Prognostic value of estimated glomerular filtration rate and presence of proteinuria in type B aortic intramural hematoma

Yang Yang, Weihao Li, Mingyuan Liu, Xiaoming Zhang, Qingle Li

Effect of vancomycin loading dose on clinical outcome in critically ill patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia

Jin Gu Yoon, Kyungmin Huh, You Min Sohn, Hyo Jung Park, Soo Jin Na, Kyeongman Jeon

B-type natriuretic peptide as a surrogate marker for survival in patients undergoing cardiac surgery

Ju Yong Lim, Sung Ho Jung, Suk Jung Choo, Cheol Hyun Chung, Jae Won Lee, Joon Bum Kim

A single institutional experience with central lung stereotactic body radiation therapy demonstrating encouraging results with increased inter-fraction time

Roman O. Kowalchuk, Michael R. Waters, K. Martin Richardson, Kelly M. Spencer, James M. Larner, Charles R. Kersh

The effectiveness of vitamin C for patients with severe viral pneumonia in respiratory failure

Song-I Lee, Chae-Man Lim, Younsuck Koh, Jin-Won Huh, Jae Seung Lee, Sang-Bum Hong

Red blood cell distribution width is associated with adverse cardiovascular events after septal myectomy

Shengwei Wang, Changpeng Song, Hao Cui, Changsheng Zhu, Rong Wu, Xiaohong Huang, Yongqiang Lai, Shuiyun Wang

Application of prosthesis eversion method for ascending aorta replacement guarantees better clinical outcomes of type A acute aortic dissection surgery

Zhipeng Hu, Zhiwei Wang, Jinxing Chang, Min Zhang, Xiaoping Hu, Zongli Ren, Bowen Li, Rui Hu

Risk factors of chest wall invasion in non-small cell lung cancer

Nozomu Motono, Shun Iwai, Aika Yamagata, Yoshihito Iijima, Katsuo Usuda, Sohsuke Yamada, Hidetaka Uramoto

Hiatal hernia after robotic-assisted coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Rami M. Abazid, Alireza Khatami, Jonathan G. Romsa, James C. Warrington, Cigdem Akincioglu, Robert Z. Stodilka, Stephanie Fox, Bob Kiaii, William C. Vezina

Introduction of robotic surgery leads to increased rate of segmentectomy in patients with lung cancer

Anna K. Gergen, Allana M. White, John D. Mitchell, Robert A. Meguid, David A. Fullerton, Christopher D. Scott, Michael J. Weyant

Mutational signatures in squamous cell carcinoma of the lung

Atsushi Osoegawa, Kazuki Takada, Tatsuro Okamoto, Seijiro Sato, Masayuki Nagahashi, Tetsuzo Tagawa, Masanori Tsuchida, Eiji Oki, Shujiro Okuda, Toshifumi Wakai, Masaki Mori

Association between airflow limitation and prognosis in patients with chronic pulmonary aspergillosis

Myoung Kyu Lee, Sae Byol Kim, Ji-Ho Lee, Seok Jeong Lee, Sang-Ha Kim, Won-Yeon Lee, Suk Joong Yong, Jong-Han Lee, Beomsu Shin

Increased glucose variability is associated with major adverse events in patients with infective endocarditis undergo surgical treatment

Mengya Liang, Mai Xiong, Yi Zhang, Jiantao Chen, Kangni Feng, Suiqing Huang, Zhongkai Wu

After-hours esophagectomy may pose additional risk to patients with esophageal cancer

De-Hao Tu, Rirong Qu, Qi Wang, Xiangning Fu

Correlation analysis between serum neuron-specific enolase and the detection of gene mutations in lung adenocarcinoma

Fang-Zhou Xu, Yan-Bei Zhang

Comparative study of the loop-mediated isothermal amplification method and the QIAGEN therascreen PCR kit for the detection of EGFR mutations in non-small cell lung cancer

Yuichi Saito, Nobumasa Takahashi, Atsuka Matsui, Satoru Michiyuki, Yoshikane Yamauchi, Yoshihiko Shimizu, Eishin Hoshi, Yukinori Sakao, Masafumi Kawamura

Association between Asthma and Internet Addiction Status in Korean Adolescents

Chang Hoon Han, Jae Ho Chung, Su Jin Lee

Biomechanical strength dependence on mammalian airway length

Zhao Huang, Lei Wang, Chen-Xi Zhang, Zhi-Hao Cai, Wen-Hao Liu, Wei-Miao Li, Shu-Gao Ye, Xiao-Fei Li, Jin-Bo Zhao

Bacteriology, antibiotic resistance and risk stratification of patients with culture-positive, community-acquired pleural infection

Marianthi Iliopoulou, Vasileios Skouras, Zoe Psaroudaki, Magda Makarona, Evangelos Vogiatzakis, Eleni Tsorlini, Eleni Katsifa, Dionisios Spyratos, Dimitra Siopi, Ourania Kotsiou, Stelios Xitsas, Maria Martsoukou, Ioanna Sigala, Ioannis Kalomenidis

Prevalence and clinical significance of pleural effusion in patients with acute pulmonary embolism: a retrospective study

Jiarui Zhang, Haixia Zhou, Adila Aili, Maoyun Wang, Yongchun Shen, Qun Yi

Clock dial integrated positioning combined with single utility port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a new localization method for lung tumors

Chao Zhou, Xinming Li, Wentao Li, Jun Qian

Postoperative atrial fibrillation in pneumonectomy for primary lung cancer

Hao Wang, Zhexin Wang, Mengmeng Zhou, Jindong Chen, Feng Yao, Liang Zhao, Ben He

How the COVID-19 pandemic changed treatment of severe aortic stenosis: a single cardiac center experience

Bartlomiej Perek, Anna Olasinska-Wisniewska, Marcin Misterski, Mateusz Puslecki, Marek Grygier, Piotr Buczkowski, Maciej Lesiak, Tomasz Stankowski, Lukasz Szarpak, Kurt Ruetzler, Oguz Turan, Marek Jemielity

Risk factors for and outcomes of prolonged mechanical ventilation in patients received DeBakey type I aortic dissection repairment

Min Ge, Zhigang Wang, Tao Chen, Yongqing Cheng, Jiaxin Ye, Lichong Lu, Cheng Chen, Dongjin Wang

Seasonal interest in pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum: a retrospective analysis of Google Trends data

Piotr Skrzypczak, Mikołaj Kamiński, Krystian Pawlak, Cezary Piwkowki

Efficacy and safety of omitting chest drains after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Lin Huang, Henrik Kehlet, Bo Laksáfoss Holbek, Tina Kold Jensen, René Horsleben Petersen

Uniportal approach as an alternative to the three-portal approach to video-assisted thoracic surgery for primary spontaneous pneumothorax

Ryohei Yoshikawa, Natsumi Matsuura, Hitoshi Igai, Tomohiro Yazawa, Fumi Ohsawa, Mitsuhiro Kamiyoshihara

Survival benefit of perioperative chemotherapy for T1-3N0M0 stage esophageal cancer: a SEER database analysis

Yue Shao, Dan Chen, Liu Ye, Xin-mei Wang, Qing-chen Wu, Cheng Zhang

Editorial

Methodology of curriculum development

Nathalie Tabin, Carine Pannetier, Daiana Stolz

Specialist training in Europe: introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Thoracic Diseases

Gilbert Massard, Daiana Stolz

The intersection of interventional pulmonology and critical care

Jonathan S. Kurman, Ashutosh Sachdeva, Rahul Nanchal

Treatment of brain metastases from lung cancer: challenging the historical nihilism concerning prognosis

Lucyna Kepka

Outcomes and technique of robotic diaphragm plication

Lana Schumacher, Danjing Zhao

Modern management of pulmonary metastases (Preface)

Khosro Hekmat

Minimally invasive cardiac surgery—a Fad or the Future?

Jason M. Ali, Yasir Abu-Omar

Surgical Technique

Implementation of simulation-based crisis training in robotic thoracic surgery: how to improve safety and performance?

Jean-Marc Baste, Benjamin Bottet, Jean Selim, Matthieu Sarsam, Antoine Lefevre-Scelles, Marie-Melody Dusseaux, Sébastien Franchina, Anne-Sophie Palenzuela, Abdeslam Chagraoui, Christophe Peillon, Alexandre Thouroude, Jean-Pierre Henry, Jean-Michel M. Coq, Louis Sibert, Cédric Damm

Robotic thymectomy for myasthenia gravis surgical techniques and outcomes

Beebarg Raza, Ankit Dhamija, Ghulam Abbas, Alper Toker

Robotic pulmonary segmentectomy

Kelsey A. Musgrove, Charlotte R. Spear, Kamil Abbas, Britney R. Harris, Ghulam Abbas

Technique of robotic esophagectomy

Tadeusz D. Witek, John J. Brady, Inderpal S. Sarkaria

Erratum

Erratum to impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on sleep

Laura Pérez-Carbonell, Imran Johan Meurling, Danielle Wasserman, Valentina Gnoni, Guy Leschziner, Anna Weighall, Jason Ellis, Simon Durrant, Alanna Hare, Joerg Steier, on behalf of the BSS task force on early detection screening