Vol 11, No 8 (August 31, 2019) - Journal of Thoracic Disease

Nicola Langiano, Silvia Fiorelli, Cristian Deana, Antonio Baroselli, Elena Giovanna Bignami, Carola Matellon, Livia Pompei, Anna Tornaghi, Federico Piccioni, Remo Orsetti, Cecilia Coccia, Noemi Sacchi, Rocco D’Andrea, Luca Brazzi, Carlo Franco, Rosanna Accardo, Antonio Di Fuccia, Francesco Baldinelli, Pasquale De Negri, Angelo Gratarola, Chiara Angeletti, Francesco Pugliese, Marco Valerio Micozzi, Domenico Massullo, Giorgio Della Rocca

PDF Pages: 3257-3269 Full Text (5070) Open Access

Waste not, want not: diagnostic material found in suction syringe aspirate during endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration

Nikhil Jagan, Carolina A. Landeen, Douglas R. Moore, Adam D. Highley, Ryan W. Walters, Zachary S. DePew

PDF Pages: 3270-3275 Full Text (1535) Open Access

The prognostic role of angiolymphatic invasion in N0 esophageal carcinoma: a meta-analysis and systematic review

An Wang, Yulong Tan, Yuyan Zhang, Dong Xu, Yuchao Fang, Xiaofeng Chen, Shaohua Wang

PDF Pages: 3276-3283 Full Text (2177) Open Access

Health-related quality of life and survival among 10-year survivors of esophageal cancer surgery: gastric tube reconstruction versus whole stomach reconstruction

Min Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Qing-Chen Wu

PDF Pages: 3284-3291 Full Text (1228) Open Access

Multiple primary malignancies for squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the esophagus

Dongni Chen, Ningbo Fan, Junxian Mo, Weidong Wang, Ruiqi Wang, Youfang Chen, Jia Hu, Zhesheng Wen

PDF Pages: 3292-3301 Full Text (2025) Open Access

Implications of elevated cardiac troponin in patients presenting with acute pulmonary embolism: an observational study

Ayman El-Menyar, Mohammad Asim, Syed Nabir, Mohamed Nadeem Ahmed, Hassan Al-Thani

PDF Pages: 3302-3314 Full Text (2458) Open Access

Poor enhancement pattern of left atrial appendage in cardiac computed tomography is associated with stroke in persistent atrial fibrillation patients

Takafumi Inoue, Yoshihiro Suematsu

PDF Pages: 3315-3324 Full Text (3211) Open Access

Evaluation of a heparin monitoring protocol for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and review of the literature

Ellen Colman, Ellen B. Yin, Greg Laine, Subhasis Chatterjee, Siavosh Saatee, J. Patrick Herlihy, Meredith A. Reyes, Arthur W. Bracey

PDF Pages: 3325-3335 Full Text (7031) Open Access

A comparative study of thoracoscopic sympathectomy for the treatment of hand sweating

Lixia Huang, Hong Jiang, Dongshan Wei, Qingming Xue, Qingsong Ding, Runlei Hu

PDF Pages: 3336-3340 Full Text (1687) Open Access

Comparison of blood flow in single and sequential vein grafts during off-pump coronary artery bypass

Jingxing Li, Chengxiong Gu

PDF Pages: 3341-3346 Full Text (1424) Open Access

A randomised, multicentre open-label phase II study to evaluate the efficacy, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of oral vinorelbine plus cisplatin versus intravenous vinorelbine plus cisplatin in Chinese patients with chemotherapy-naive unresectable or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer

Yunpeng Yang, Jianhua Chang, Cheng Huang, Yiping Zhang, Jie Wang, Yongqian Shu, Jean Philippe Burillon, Marcello Riggi, Aurélie Petain, Pierre Ferre, Ying Liang, Li Zhang

PDF Pages: 3347-3359 Full Text (1593) Open Access

A retrospective study analyzing missed diagnosis of lung metastases at their early stages on computed tomography

Huai Chen, Suidan Huang, Qingsi Zeng, Min Zhang, Zhiwen Ni, Xiaoling Li, Xiaoyin Xu

PDF Pages: 3360-3368 Full Text (3446) Open Access

Pulmonary metastasectomy for sarcoma—survival and prognostic analysis

Wojciech Dudek, Waldemar Schreiner, Iurii Mykoliuk, Mostafa Higaze, Horia Sirbu

PDF Pages: 3369-3376 Full Text (1292) Open Access

Prognostic value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte, platelet-to-lymphocyte and lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio ratios in patients operated on due to non-small cell lung cancer

Mariusz Łochowski, Barbara Łochowska, Izabela Zawadzka, Bartosz Cieślik-Wolski, Dominika Kozik, Józef Kozak

PDF Pages: 3377-3384 Full Text (1498) Open Access

Aortic dissection patients mimic acute coronary syndrome with preoperative antiplatelet therapy

Yunxing Xue, Hoshun Chong, Xiyu Zhu, Fudong Fan, Dongjin Wang, Qing Zhou

PDF Pages: 3385-3390 Full Text (2960) Open Access

Multidisciplinary treatment of thymic neuroendocrine tumors: surgery remains a key component

Erin M. Corsini, Kyle G. Mitchell, Eric L. Sceusi, Reza J. Mehran, David C. Rice, Boris Sepesi, Garrett L. Walsh, Stephen G. Swisher, Jack A. Roth, Ara A. Vaporciyan, Wayne L. Hofstetter, Mara B. Antonoff

PDF Pages: 3391-3398 Full Text (1277) Open Access

TMEM213 as a novel prognostic and predictive biomarker for patients with lung adenocarcinoma after curative resection: a study based on bioinformatics analysis

Jiayun Zou, Zhi Li, Hao Deng, Junli Hao, Rui Ding, Mingfang Zhao

PDF Pages: 3399-3410 Full Text (1828) Open Access

Effect of progressive sarcopenia during postoperative 6 months on long-term prognosis of completely resected lung cancer

Masashi Nagata, Hiroyuki Ito, Tomoyuki Yokose, Akihiro Tokushige, Shinichiro Ueda, Haruhiko Nakayama

PDF Pages: 3411-3420 Full Text (1447) Open Access

The safety of thymic vein sealing with ultrasonic energy in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery thymectomy

Hao Wu, Qing Lin, Yangchuan Liu, Liru Chen, Lei Peng, Yeji Hu, Sui Yin, Quan Xu

PDF Pages: 3421-3426 Full Text (Video) (1094) Open Access

The influence of adjuvant radiation therapy after endoscopic resection on survival for early stage EC: an analysis of the surveillance epidemiology and end results (SEER) database

Baofu Chen, Junhong Lin, Yuhang Ruan, Zixuan Chen, Kaya Petersen, Min Kong, Jianfei Shen, Gongchao Wang

PDF Pages: 3427-3434 Full Text (1081) Open Access

Association between cardiovascular risk factors and the diameter of the main pulmonary artery in asymptomatic population in the Appalachian region

Timir K. Paul, Ali E. Alamin, Pooja Subedi, Michael Zhang, Mohamed M. Diab, Arsham Alamian, Liang Wang, Gerald Blackwell, Hadii M. Mamudu

PDF Pages: 3435-3442 Full Text (1190) Open Access

An assessment of the distance between the phrenic nerve and major intrathoracic structures

Tim Bishop, Derek Clark, Heather Bendyk, Joey Bell, David Jaynes

PDF Pages: 3443-3448 Full Text (1597) Open Access

Prognostic significance of the pattern of pathological N1 lymph node metastases for non-small cell lung cancer

Sergej Griff, Samantha Taber, Torsten T. Bauer, Joachim Pfannschmidt

PDF Pages: 3449-3458 Full Text (1674) Open Access

Chest wall reconstruction using a new titanium mesh: a multicenters experience

Nicola Tamburini, William Grossi, Stefano Sanna, Alessio Campisi, Francesco Londero, Pio Maniscalco, Giampiero Dolci, Francesco Quarantotto, Niccolò Daddi, Angelo Morelli, Giorgio Cavallesco, Andrea Dell’Amore

PDF Pages: 3459-3466 Full Text (1861) Open Access

Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging in unilateral diaphragm eventration: knowledge improvement before and after plication

Francoise Le Pimpec-Barthes, Anne Hernigou, Antonio Mazzella, Antoine Legras, Caroline Rivera, Imen Bouacida, Alex Arame, Alain Badia, Juan Carlos Das Neves Pereira, Capucine Morelot-Panzini, Thomas Similowski, Marc Riquet, Aurélie Vilfaillot, Giuseppe Mangiameli

PDF Pages: 3467-3475 Full Text (Video) (1403) Open Access

The comparison of ultrasound-guided thoracic paravertebral blockade and internal intercostal nerve block for non-intubated video-assisted thoracic surgery

Hanyu Yang, Qinglong Dong, Lixia Liang, Jun Liu, Long Jiang, Hengrui Liang, Shiyuan Xu

PDF Pages: 3476-3481 Full Text (2237) Open Access

Changing etiological frequency of chronic cough in a tertiary hospital in Shanghai, China

Hongmei Ding, Xianghuai Xu, Siwan Wen, Yiming Yu, Jing Pan, Cuiqin Shi, Ran Dong, Zhongmin Qiu, Li Yu

PDF Pages: 3482-3489 Full Text (1808) Open Access

Comparison of costs of hospitalization of patients with primary lung cancer after lobectomy with access through classic thoracotomy and VATS in the conditions of financing based on diagnosis-related groups

Joanna Lipińska, Marcin Wawrzycki, Sławomir Jabłoński

PDF Pages: 3490-3495 Full Text (1645) Open Access

Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors: risk of blood product transfusion and inotrope requirements in patients undergoing cardiac surgery

Carla Luzzi, Konrad Salata, Carine Djaiani, Maxim Gershinsky, Vivek Rao, Jo Carroll, Rita Katznelson

PDF Pages: 3496-3504 Full Text (1371) Open Access

Urine lipoarabinomannan (LAM) and antimicrobial usage in seriously-ill HIV-infected patients with sputum smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis

Thuli Mthiyane, Jonny Peter, Jenny Allen, Cathy Connolly, Malika Davids, Roxana Rustomjee, Timothy H. Holtz, Lesibana Malinga, Keertan Dheda

PDF Pages: 3505-3514 Full Text (1519) Open Access

Volumetric assessment of solid pulmonary nodules on ultralow-dose CT: a phantom study

Matthias Eberhard, Daniel Stocker, Gianluca Milanese, Katharina Martini, Thi Dan Linh Nguyen-Kim, Moritz C. Wurnig, Thomas Frauenfelder, Stephan Baumueller

PDF Pages: 3515-3524 Full Text (1217) Open Access

The clinical significance of the intraoperative pathological examination of bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve lymph nodes using frozen sections in cervical field lymph node dissection of thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Jinxin Xu, Bin Zheng, Shuliang Zhang, Taidui Zeng, Hao Chen, Wei Zheng, Chun Chen

PDF Pages: 3525-3533 Full Text (1072) Open Access

Lipid management for coronary heart disease patients: an appraisal of updated international guidelines applying Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II—clinical practice guideline appraisal for lipid management in coronary heart disease

Huimin Zhou, Shaozhao Zhang, Xiuting Sun, Daya Yang, Xiaodong Zhuang, Yue Guo, Xun Hu, Zhimin Du, Meifen Zhang, Xinxue Liao

PDF Pages: 3534-3546 Full Text (2259) Open Access

The clinical significance of serum adipocytokines level in patients with lung cancer

Fanfan Li, Yanan Cao, Jingjing Li, Cong Gao, Xiang Dong, Pengfei Ren, Chenxu Meng, Chanjuan Chen

PDF Pages: 3547-3555 Full Text (1497) Open Access

Non-intubated video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery vs. intubated video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for thoracic disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 1,684 cases

Kai Zhang, Hui-Guo Chen, Wei-Bin Wu, Xiao-Jun Li, Yong-Hui Wu, Jian-Nan Xu, Yu-Bin Jia, Jian Zhang

PDF Pages: 3556-3568 Full Text (1967) Open Access

The use of magnetic resonance imaging in differential diagnosis of allergic fungal sinusitis and eosinophilic mucin rhinosinusitis

Yifan Meng, Luo Zhang, Yingshi Piao, Hongfei Lou, Kuiji Wang, Chengshuo Wang

PDF Pages: 3569-3577 Full Text (1915) Open Access

Necessity of thoracotomy in pulmonary metastasis of osteosarcoma

Erji Gao, Yang Li, Weigang Zhao, Tiancheng Zhao, Xiang Guo, Weiwei He, Weiming Wu, Yonghong Zhao, Yi Yang

PDF Pages: 3578-3583 Full Text (1694) Open Access

Comparison of Ivor Lewis esophagectomy and Sweet esophagectomy for the treatment of middle-lower esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Yuan Feng, Nan Wu, Shi Yan, Xing Wang, Yue Yang

PDF Pages: 3584-3592 Full Text (3187) Open Access

Effects of the health belief model following acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a hospital in China

Mei Ji, Ai-Hong Wang, Jun Ye, Ya-Hui Shen, Chun-Mei Chen, Chen Yu, Li-Fang Li

PDF Pages: 3593-3598 Full Text (1906) Open Access

Lipoxin A4 ameliorates alveolar fluid clearance disturbance in lipopolysaccharide-induced lung injury via aquaporin 5 and MAPK signaling pathway

Fang Ba, Xiaoming Zhou, Yingqi Zhang, Cen Wu, Shenqian Xu, Liqin Wu, Jiayang Li, Yan Yin, Xiu Gu

PDF Pages: 3599-3608 Full Text (1517) Open Access

Review Article

Blood transfusion associated lung injury

Maria Theresa Voelker, Peter Spieth

PDF Pages: 3609-3615 Full Text (3917) Open Access

House dust mite subcutaneous immunotherapy in Chinese patients with allergic asthma and rhinitis

Mulin Feng, Xiaohui Zeng, Jing Li

PDF Pages: 3616-3625 Full Text (2104) Open Access

Original Article of GARD Section¹

Does one year change in quality of life predict the mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?—Prospective cohort study

Yavuz Havlucu, Arzu Yorgancıoglu, Aysin Sakar Coskun, Pinar Celık

PDF Pages: 3626-3632 Full Text (1515) 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 1)

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, Giorgio W. 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: 3633-3642 Full Text (5590) Open Access

Original Article of Interventional Pulmonology Corner²

Comparison of specimen adequacy and diagnostic accuracy of a 25-gauge and 22-gauge needle in endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration

Christopher Di Felice, Benjamin Young, Maroun Matta

PDF Pages: 3643-3649 Full Text (1952) Open Access

Incidence and clinical relevance of non-small cell lung cancer lymph node micro-metastasis detected by staging endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration

Adam R. Belanger, Johnathan Hollyfield, Gabriella Yacovone, Agathe S. Ceppe, Jason A. Akulian, A. Cole Burks, M. Patricia Rivera, Leslie G. Dodd, Jason M. Long, Benjamin E. Haithcock, Chad V. Pecot

PDF Pages: 3650-3658 Full Text (1501) Open Access

iMDT Corner

Mitral valve restenosis after closed mitral commissurotomy: case discussion

Anyi Xu, Jiang Jin, Xiaodong Li, Jian Xiao, Peng Zhu, Wenhui Gong, Yue Liu, Yuetian Yu, Chunguang Wang, Chengxin Zhang, Irbaz Hameed, Arash Salemi, Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero, Taufiek Konrad Rajab, Francesco Nappi, Jianfei Shen, Baofu Chen

PDF Pages: 3659-3671 Full Text (1960) Open Access

Letter to the Editor

Novel air leak test and step-by-step strategy for preventing the air leak in lung surgery

Hee Chul Yang, Hye Young Chang

PDF Pages: E106-E108 Full Text (949) Open Access

Personalized adjuvant treatment: go through the past to the future

Si-Yang Liu, Yi-Long Wu

PDF Pages: E109-E111 Full Text (923) Open Access

Acute kidney injury: a common prognostic condition for different pathogenetic triggers?

Daniela Cardinale, Nicola Cosentino, Giancarlo Marenzi

PDF Pages: E112-E114 Full Text (868) Open Access

Chest ultrasonography and X-ray may be perfectly integrated in patients management after thoracic surgery such as Shaq and Kobe

Marco Chiappetta, Maria Teresa Congedo, Andrea Smargiassi, Dania Nachira, Stefano Margaritora

PDF Pages: E115-E116 Full Text (798) Open Access

The tidal volume fix and more…

Fabienne D. Simonis, Ary Serpa Neto, Marcus J. Schultz

PDF Pages: E117-E122 Full Text (3036) Open Access

Intraoperative conversion: it happens, we should smartly deal with it

Alex Fourdrain, Florent Leviel, Sophie Lafitte, Pascal Berna

PDF Pages: E123-E124 Full Text (980) Open Access

Invited author response to editorial commentary: hypoalbuminemia in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement: culprit or surrogate?

Asmae Gassa, Jan Hendrik Borghardt, Johanna Maier, Max Michel, Navid Mader, Stephan Baldus, Thorsten Wahlers

PDF Pages: E125-E126 Full Text (753) Open Access

Surgical approach for thymic epithelial tumor

Yasushi Shintani, Soichiro Funaki, Naoko Ose, Takashi Kanou, Eriko Fukui, Masato Minami

PDF Pages: E127-E130 Full Text (1167) Open Access

The current only location-based nodal classification in NSCLC may be inadequate

Tomohiro Maniwa

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Recent topics of lung neuroendocrine tumors

Yoshinobu Ichiki, Hiroki Matsumiya, Masataka Mori, Masatoshi Kanayama, Yusuke Nabe, Akihiro Taira, Shinji Shinohara, Hidenori Goto, Taiji Kuwata, Masaru Takenaka, Soichi Oka, Yasuhiro Chikaishi, Takashi Fukuyama, Naoko Imanishi, Kazue Yoneda, Koji Kuroda, Noritada Kobayashi, Kozo Nakanishi, Fumihiro Tanaka

PDF Pages: E133-E134 Full Text (866) Open Access

A novel treatment for bronchopleural fistula after pulmonary resection by interventional technique

Gang Wu, Yanwei Zeng, Meipan Yin, Yue Zhao

PDF Pages: E135-E137 Full Text (1047) Open Access

Correspondence to the editorials on “Comparison of stereotactic body radiotherapy versus metastasectomy outcomes in patients with pulmonary metastases”

Hojin Jeong, Yun Hee Lee, Ki Mun Kang, Bae Kwon Jeong

PDF Pages: E138-E140 Full Text (848) Open Access

Accurate staging of non-small cell lung cancer—tissue is the issue

Neal Navani

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Pushing the limits in order to avoid pneumonectomy

Giulio Maurizi, Camilla Vanni, Erino Angelo Rendina

PDF Pages: E144-E145 Full Text (937) Open Access

Erratum

Erratum: Fungal infection in lung transplant recipients in perioperative period from one lung transplant center

Weizhen Qiao, Jian Zou, Fengfeng Ping, Zhenge Han, Lingling Li, Xiuzhi Wang

PDF Pages: E146-E147 Full Text (675) 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.

Vol 11, No 8 (August 31, 2019): Journal of Thoracic Disease

Editorial

Original Article