Vol 11, No 11 (November 28, 2019) - Journal of Thoracic Disease

Editorial

Impact of clinical features of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients on osimertinib efficacy

Chiara Lazzari, Vanesa Gregorc, Mariacarmela Santarpia

PDF Pages: 4400-4403 Full Text (1132) Open Access

Helping patients with lung cancer choose between surgery or stereotactic body radiotherapy: the importance of the patient experience

Michael MacManus, Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Fiona Hegi-Johnson

PDF Pages: 4404-4407 Full Text (1297) Open Access

Guideline

Management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease—A position statement of the South African Thoracic Society: 2019 update

Mohamed Sabeer Abdool-Gaffar, Gregory Calligaro, Michelle Lianne Wong, Clifford Smith, Umesh Gangaram Lalloo, Coenraad Frederik Nicolaas Koegelenberg, Keertan Dheda, Brian William Allwood, Akhter Goolam-Mahomed, Richard Nellis van Zyl-Smit

PDF Pages: 4408-4427 Full Text (5719) Open Access

Original Article

Single- versus two-port video-assisted thoracic surgery in mediastinal tumor: a propensity-matched study

Shilong Wu, Hengrui Liang, Wenhua Liang, Yaoliang Zhang, Yanzhi Ma, Hui Liu, Hanyu Yang, Jun Liu, Jianxing He

PDF Pages: 4428-4435 Full Text (1586) Open Access

Retrospective immunohistological study of autopsied lungs in patients with acute exacerbation of interstitial pneumonia managed with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Yoshiko Kida, Shinichiro Ohshimo, Michihito Kyo, Koji Hosokawa, Vishwa Jeet Amatya, Yukio Takeshima, Nobuaki Shime

PDF Pages: 4436-4443 Full Text (1237) Open Access

Early surgical myocardial revascularization in non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome

Sebastian V. Rojas, Mai Linh Trinh-Adams, Aitor Uribarri, Felix Fleissner, Pavel Iablonskii, Sara Rojas-Hernandez, Marcel Ricklefs, Andreas Martens, Stefan Rümke, Gregor Warnecke, Serghei Cebotari, Axel Haverich, Issam Ismail

PDF Pages: 4444-4452 Full Text (2128) Open Access

The effect of PD-L1/PD-1 immunotherapy in the treatment of squamous non-small-cell lung cancer: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled clinical trials

Shuang Li, Shuang Zhang, Jingjing Liu, Changliang Yang, Liang Zhang, Ying Cheng

PDF Pages: 4453-4463 Full Text (2027) Open Access

Antiangiogenic effect of crocin on breast cancer cell MDA-MB-231

Shuang-Shuang Chen, Yuan Gu, Fang Lu, Dan-Ping Qian, Ting-Ting Dong, Zhong-Hai Ding, Shuang Zhao, Zheng-Hong Yu

PDF Pages: 4464-4473 Full Text (2235) Open Access

Safety outcomes in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer patients treated with first-line platinum-based regimens in the United States

Lei Chen, Jong Seok Kim, Belen San Antonio, Yajun Emily Zhu, Lucy Mitchell, William John

PDF Pages: 4474-4483 Full Text (1931) Open Access

Misinterpretation of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis/allergic bronchopulmonary mycosis due to diverse characteristics in different clinical stages

Haijun Feng, Ping Lv, Xiaoxia Ren, Huaping Dai, Ting Yang

PDF Pages: 4484-4491 Full Text (1735) Open Access

The association between plasma fibrinogen levels and lung cancer: a meta-analysis

Ke Zhang, Ye Xu, Shanyue Tan, Xueyan Wang, Mulong Du, Lingxiang Liu

PDF Pages: 4492-4500 Full Text (1762) Open Access

Modified McKeown procedure with uniportal thoracoscope for upper or middle esophageal cancer: initial experience and preliminary results

Qi Wang, Wei Ping, Yixin Cai, Shengling Fu, Xiangning Fu, Ni Zhang

PDF Pages: 4501-4506 Full Text (1302) Open Access

The prognostic value of tumor mutation burden in EGFR-mutant advanced lung adenocarcinoma, an analysis based on cBioPortal data base

Xiao-Dong Jiao, Xi He, Bao-Dong Qin, Ke Liu, Ying Wu, Jun Liu, Ting Hou, Yuan-Sheng Zang

PDF Pages: 4507-4515 Full Text (2314) Open Access

Application of radiomics signature captured from pretreatment thoracic CT to predict brain metastases in stage III/IV ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer patients

Xinyan Xu, Lyu Huang, Jiayan Chen, Junmiao Wen, Di Liu, Jianzhao Cao, Jiazhou Wang, Min Fan

PDF Pages: 4516-4528 Full Text (1896) Open Access

A phase II study of concurrent nab-paclitaxel/carboplatin combined with thoracic radiotherapy in locally advanced squamous cell lung cancer

Kan Wu, Lucheng Zhu, Jiahao Wang, Kaicheng Pan, Bing Wang, Xin Li, Shaoyu Yang, Xiao Xu, Minna Zhang, Xiadong Li, Xueqin Chen, Shenglin Ma, Bing Xia

PDF Pages: 4529-4537 Full Text (2451) Open Access

Use of new cannulated screws for primary sternal closure in high risk patients for sternal dehiscence

Giuseppe De Cicco, Davide Tosi, Roberto Crisci, Andrea Bortolami, Tommaso Maria Aquino, Aldo Prencipe, Gerardo Di Matteo, Stefano Benussi

PDF Pages: 4538-4543 Full Text (1846) Open Access

Algorithm-based troubleshooting to manage bleeding during thoracoscopic anatomic pulmonary resection

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

PDF Pages: 4544-4550 Full Text (1293) Open Access

Relationship between pulmonary function and brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity in coal miners in northern China

Xinhua Yan, Lixia Sun, Mengying Ma, Jiqiang Liu, Shouling Wu, Jie Cao

PDF Pages: 4551-4561 Full Text (1406) Open Access

Pulmonary function is implicated in the prognosis of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer but not in extended disease small cell lung cancer

Suk-young Lee, Yoon Ji Choi, Jae Hong Seo, Sung Yong Lee, Jung Sun Kim, Eun Joo Kang

PDF Pages: 4562-4572 Full Text (1976) Open Access

Therapeutic issues with, and long-term outcomes of, pulmonary mycobacterial tuberculosis treatment in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases

Dong Won Park, Sung Jun Chung, Yoomi Yeo, Tai Sun Park, Hyun Lee, Ji-Yong Moon, Sang-Heon Kim, Tae-Hyung Kim, Ho Joo Yoon, Jang Won Sohn

PDF Pages: 4573-4582 Full Text (2029) Open Access

Platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio is an independent prognosticator in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma receiving esophagectomy

Li-Chun Chen, Shau-Hsuan Li, Chien-Ming Lo, Yen-Hao Chen, Shun-Chen Huang, Yu-Ming Wang, Shang-Yu Chou, Hung-I Lu

PDF Pages: 4583-4590 Full Text (1321) Open Access

Correlation between PD-L1 expression and clinicopathological characteristics of non-small cell lung cancer: A real-world study of a large Chinese cohort

Yan Jin, Xuxia Shen, Yunjian Pan, Qiang Zheng, Haiquan Chen, Hong Hu, Yuan Li

PDF Pages: 4591-4601 Full Text (3913) Open Access

Expression and significance of c-kit and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) molecules in thymic epithelial tumors (TETs)

Zhigang Wu, Songtao Xue, Bin Zheng, Rongjin Ye, Guobing Xu, Shuliang Zhang, Taidui Zeng, Wei Zheng, Chun Chen

PDF Pages: 4602-4612 Full Text (1446) Open Access

Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of levofloxacin- and moxifloxacin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates in southern China

H. M. Adnan Hameed, Yaoju Tan, Md Mahmudul Islam, Lingmin Guo, Chiranjibi Chhotaray, Shuai Wang, Zhiyong Liu, Yamin Gao, Shouyong Tan, Wing Wai Yew, Nanshan Zhong, Jianxiong Liu, Tianyu Zhang

PDF Pages: 4613-4625 Full Text (2914) Open Access

Molecular epidemiology of respiratory viruses among Malaysian Young children with a confirmed respiratory infection during 2014–2015

Su Mei Yew, Ka-Liong Tan, Siok Koon Yeo, Kee Peng Ng, Chee Sian Kuan

PDF Pages: 4626-4633 Full Text (2698) Open Access

Predicting in-hospital rupture of type A aortic dissection using Random Forest

Jinlin Wu, Juntao Qiu, Enzehua Xie, Wenxiang Jiang, Rui Zhao, Jiawei Qiu, Mohammad A. Zafar, Yan Huang, Cuntao Yu

PDF Pages: 4634-4646 Full Text (3224) Open Access

The powered vascular staple (PVS) versus conventional powered linier cutter (PLC) for the application of bronchial transection in thoracoscopic anatomic segmentectomy

Ying Ji, Bin Qiu, Shugeng Gao

PDF Pages: 4647-4653 Full Text (1392) Open Access

Comparison of long-term outcomes between radical esophagectomy and definitive chemoradiotherapy in patients with clinical T1bN0M0 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Hongbo Zhao, Kazuo Koyanagi, Ken Kato, Yoshinori Ito, Jun Itami, Hiroyasu Igaki, Yuji Tachimori

PDF Pages: 4654-4662 Full Text (1302) Open Access

Nebulized dexmedetomidine-lidocaine inhalation as a premedication for flexible bronchoscopy: a randomized trial

Wei Gu, Meiying Xu, Huijie Lu, Qi Huang, Jingxiang Wu

PDF Pages: 4663-4670 Full Text (3050) Open Access

Recombinant human thrombopoietin combined with interleukin-2 improves the effects of chemosensitivity and thrombocytopenia on a basic gemcitabine and carboplatin combination therapy for non-small cell lung cancer in a nude mouse model

Yunhua Xu, Yan Pan, Zhen Zhou

PDF Pages: 4671-4681 Full Text (1610) Open Access

Preoperative computed tomography-guided pulmonary nodule localization augmented by laser angle guide assembly

Stella Chin-Shaw Tsai, Tzu-Chin Wu, Yi-Lin Lai, Frank Cheau-Feng Lin

PDF Pages: 4682-4692 Full Text (1443) Open Access

Technical results, clinical efficacy and predictors of outcome of intercostal arteries embolization for hemothorax: a two-institutions’ experience

Nicola Tamburini, Nicole Carriel, Giorgio Cavallesco, Laureano Molins, Roberto Galeotti, Rudith Guzmán, Elisabetta Salviato, David Sánchez-Lorente, Elisa Maietti, Pio Maniscalco, Marc Boada

PDF Pages: 4693-4699 Full Text (1548) Open Access

Incidence and risk factors of readmission after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer

Seong Yong Park, Dae Joon Kim, Go Eun Byun

PDF Pages: 4700-4707 Full Text (1562) Open Access

Root reconstruction for proximal repair in acute type A aortic dissection

Yunxing Xue, Qing Zhou, Jun Pan, Hailong Cao, Fudong Fan, Xiyu Zhu, Hoshun Chong, Dongjin Wang

PDF Pages: 4708-4716 Full Text (1110) Open Access

“Aorta-clamp” technique for surgical repair of acute type A aortic dissection—5 min circulatory arrest at 30 °C

Jie He, Jihai Peng, Wei Li, Dingwen Zheng, Shihao Cai, Wenliu Xu, Jinsong Huang, Xiaoping Fan

PDF Pages: 4717-4724 Full Text (1512) Open Access

Efficacy and safety of bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy in symptomatic brain metastases from lung adenocarcinoma: a retrospective analysis

Qiong Zhan, Feng Miao, Ruofan Huang, Xinli Zhou, Mengxi Ge, Xiaohua Liang

PDF Pages: 4725-4734 Full Text (1546) Open Access

Natural evolvement of lung tumors induced by N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) and the impact of a high sucrose-high fat diet on tumor evolvement assessed by tumor histology in inbred BALB/c and C57BL/6J mice

Lijun Dai, Yueling Huang, Bingfei Ye, Xinbin Yang, Shengli An, Min Hou

PDF Pages: 4735-4745 Full Text (947) Open Access

Outcomes and risk factors identification in urgent lung transplantation: a multicentric study

Marco Schiavon, Giulio Faggi, Lorenzo Rosso, Luca Luzzi, Giovanni Maria Comacchio, Dario Gregori, Mario Nosotti, Francesco Damarco, Andrea Dell’Amore, David Bennet, Antonella Fossi, Piero Paladini, Luigi Santambrogio, Federico Rea

PDF Pages: 4746-4754 Full Text (1895) Open Access

Predictors of blood loss in lung transplant surgery—a single center retrospective cohort analysis

Bastian Grande, Pascal Oechslin, Martin Schlaepfer, Burkhardt Seifert, Ilhan Inci, Isabelle Opitz, Donat R. Spahn, Walter Weder, Marco Zalunardo

PDF Pages: 4755-4761 Full Text (1268) Open Access

Multimodality cardiac computed tomography angiography and magnetic resonance with clinical-grade scanners provide robust assessment of cardiac morphology and function in rabbits

Gitsios Gitsioudis, Maximilian Nunninger, Anna Missiou, Peter Wolf, Hugo A. Katus, Grigorios Korosoglou

PDF Pages: 4762-4771 Full Text (1184) Open Access

Does less surgical trauma result in better outcome in management of iatrogenic tracheobronchial laceration?

Dominik Herrmann, Jan Volmerig, Ahmad Al-Turki, Monique Braun, Anke Herrmann, Santiago Ewig, Erich Hecker

PDF Pages: 4772-4781 Full Text (1384) Open Access

Fate of spontaneous pneumothorax from middle to old age: how to overcome an irritating recurrence?

Seung Hyuk Nam, Kun Woo Kim, Sung-Whan Kim, Si-Wook Kim, Jong-Myeon Hong, Dohun Kim

PDF Pages: 4782-4789 Full Text (1297) Open Access

Extracorporeal life support to ventricular assist device: potential benefits of sternal-sparing approach

Fabio M. Sagebin, Brian C. Ayers, Katherine Wood, Bryan Barrus, Leway Chen, Jeffrey Alexis, Himabindu Vidula, Sabu Thomas, Eugene Storozynsky, Sunil Prasad, Igor Gosev

PDF Pages: 4790-4797 Full Text (1807) Open Access

Long-term outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention in grafts and native vessels in coronary artery bypass grafting patients with diabetes mellitus

Dong Liu, Xiao Cui, Xiaoliang Luo, Zhongwei Sun, Bo Xu, Shubin Qiao, Jiansong Yuan

PDF Pages: 4798-4806 Full Text (1663) Open Access

Current status and evolution of robotic-assisted thoracic surgery in Germany—results from a nationwide survey

Thorben Möller, Jan-Hendrik Egberts, Martin Eichhorn, Hans-Stefan Hofmann, Ingo Krüger, Jens-C. Rückert, Tim Sandhaus, Matthias Steinert

PDF Pages: 4807-4815 Full Text (1836) Open Access

Extracellular mitochondrial DNA promote NLRP3 inflammasome activation and induce acute lung injury through TLR9 and NF-κB

Guannan Wu, Qingqing Zhu, Junli Zeng, Xiaoling Gu, Yingying Miao, Wujian Xu, Tangfeng Lv, Yong Song

PDF Pages: 4816-4828 Full Text (4465) Open Access

A new tool for diagnosing parathyroid lesions: angio plus ultrasound imaging

He Liu, Quan Liao, Yong Wang, Ya Hu, Qingli Zhu, Liang Wang, Qianqian Liu, Jianchu Li, Yuxin Jiang

PDF Pages: 4829-4834 Full Text (1613) Open Access

Qualitative and quantitative imaging features of pulmonary subsolid nodules: differentiating invasive adenocarcinoma from minimally invasive adenocarcinoma and preinvasive lesions

Linlin Qi, Wenwen Lu, Lin Yang, Wei Tang, Shijun Zhao, Yao Huang, Ning Wu, Jianwei Wang

PDF Pages: 4835-4846 Full Text (2100) Open Access

Short Communication

Can physics principles help explain why non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung disease is more severe in the right middle lobe and lingula?

Sangbong Choi, John C. Richards, Edward D. Chan

PDF Pages: 4847-4854 Full Text (1276) Open Access

Optimizations of stent and tissue leaflets in a new surgical bovine pericardial valve

Jinmiao Chen, Jun Yang, Li Zhang, Wenrui Ma, Shuyang Lu, Chunsheng Wang, Tao Hong

PDF Pages: 4855-4858 Full Text (1318) Open Access

Review Article

Clinicopathological comparison and therapeutic approach to Castleman disease—a case-based review

Małgorzata Wojtyś, Agnieszka Piekarska, Michał Kunc, Konrad Ptaszyński, Wojciech Biernat, Jan Maciej Zaucha, Piotr Waloszczyk, Piotr Lisowski, Bartosz Kubisa, Tomasz Grodzki

PDF Pages: 4859-4874 Full Text (3342) Open Access

Infective endocarditis: trends, surgical outcomes, and controversies

Mahbub Jamil, Ibrahim Sultan, Thomas G. Gleason, Forozan Navid, Michael A. Fallert, Matthew S. Suffoletto, Arman Kilic

PDF Pages: 4875-4885 Full Text (3563) Open Access

iMDT Corner

The 100 most cited articles on thoracic surgery management of lung cancer

Ke Jin, Quanteng Hu, Jianfeng Xu, Chunlei Wu, Michael K. Hsin, Carmelina C. Zirafa, Nuria M. Novoa, Stefano Bongiolatti, Robert J. Cerfolio, Jianfei Shen, Dehua Ma

PDF Pages: 4886-4903 Full Text (2791) Open Access

Section of Interventional Pulmonology¹

Pleural fluid glucose testing using a finger stick glucometer: a novel bedside test

Tony F. Abdo, Himanshu Bhardwaj, Muhammad K. Ishaq, Jean I. Keddissi, Houssein A. Youness

PDF Pages: 4904-4908 Full Text (1340) Open Access

Editorial Commentary

Lung retransplantation: walking a thin line between hope and false expectations

Laurent Godinas, Dirk Van Raemdonck, Laurens J. Ceulemans, Robin Vos, Geert M. Verleden

PDF Pages: E200-E203 Full Text (1905) Open Access

How should we decide the optimum intraoperative fluid and colloid usage in pulmonary resection?

Yukio Sato

PDF Pages: E204-E205 Full Text (980) Open Access

Shifting the attention from devices to treatment: the lesson from IABP-SHOCK II and other trials in cardiogenic shock

Francesco Saia

PDF Pages: E206-E209 Full Text (1768) Open Access

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the beginning of the XXI Century

Alvar Agusti, Jing Zhang

PDF Pages: E210-E213 Full Text (2190) Chinese (669) Open Access

Prediction of mediastinal lymph node metastasis in adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction

Henrik Nienhüser, Thomas Schmidt

PDF Pages: E214-E216 Full Text (949) Open Access

Improved clinical outcomes following additional aggressive local consolidative therapy to systemic therapy for oligometastasis from lung cancer: where do we stand between “reality” and “illusion”?

Heerim Nam, Jae Myoung Noh, Seung Gyu Park, Yong Chan Ahn

PDF Pages: E217-E220 Full Text (1195) Open Access

The prediction of response to immunotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer patients by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Laura Evangelista

PDF Pages: E221-E223 Full Text (1080) Open Access

Robotic surgery can extend surgical indication in patients with lung cancer and impaired function

Giulia Veronesi, Pietro Bruschini, Pierluigi Novellis

PDF Pages: E224-E228 Full Text (907) Open Access

Type II and III adenocarcinoma of the esophago-gastric junction: esophageal extent ≥1.5 cm critical for mediastinal nodal disease

Gerhard G. Grabenbauer

PDF Pages: E229-E230 Full Text (723) Open Access

Early neuromuscular blockade in moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome: do not throw the baby out with the bathwater!

Sunghoon Park, Matthieu Schmidt

PDF Pages: E231-E234 Full Text (1590) Open Access

Unrecognized obstructive sleep apnea in surgery: we can’t afford to sleep on it any longer

Aaron Oh, Sutapa Mukherjee, R. Doug McEvoy

PDF Pages: E235-E238 Full Text (1584) Open Access

The added value of quantitative 18F-FDG-PET/CT parameters in the assessment of pulmonary lymphangitic carcinomatosis in lung cancer

Dexter P. Mendoza, Subba R. Digumarthy

PDF Pages: E239-E242 Full Text (1074) Open Access

Recent advances in defining and benchmarking complications after esophagectomy

Lucas Goense, Jelle P. Ruurda, Richard van Hillergersberg

PDF Pages: E243-E246 Full Text (1190) Open Access

Disclosure:

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

Vol 11, No 11 (November 28, 2019): Journal of Thoracic Disease