Socioeconomic Disparities in the Treatment of Thoracic Malignancies
Guest Editors: Kei Suzuki and Virginia Litle (Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Special Series (Published)
Robotic Thoracic Surgery
Guest Editor: Amy Tyberg(Department of Medicine | Division of Gastroenterology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School New Brunswick, USA)
Radiotherapy for Brain Metastases from Lung Cancer
Guest Editor: Lucyna Kepka (Department of Radiation Oncology, Military institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland)
Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Guest Editors: Jason Ali and Yasir Abu-Omar (Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Pulmonary Metastases
Guest Editor: Khosro Hekmat (University of Cologne, Germany)
Training in Pulmonary Medicine and Surgery
Guest Editor: Gilbert Massard (Service de Chirurgie Thoracique, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France)
Women in Thoracic Surgery
Guest Editors: Cecilia Pompili (Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, St James' Institute of Oncology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK); Leah Backhus (Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA)
Thymoma
This series on “Thymoma” is edited by Dr. Dragana Jovanovic, from Thoracic Oncology and Palliative Medicine, Internal Medicine Clinic “Akta Medica”, Belgrade, Serbia; and Dr. Semra Bilaceroglu, from Department. of Pulmonology, University of Health Sciences, Dr. Suat Seren Training and Research Hospital for Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Izmir, Turkey.
Contemporary Practice in Thoracic Neoplasm Diagnosis, Evaluation and Treatment
Guest Editor: Chi Wan Koo (Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA)
Patient Reported Outcomes in Thoracic Surgery: A New Frontier
Guest Editor: Peter J. Kneuertz (Thoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA)
Airway Surgery
Guest Editor: Servet Bölükbas (Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany)
Small Cell Lung Cancer
Guest Editor: Jose Pacheco (Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Anschutz Cancer Center, Aurora, Colorado, USA)
Role of Precision Imaging in Thoracic Disease
Guest Editor: Ammar Chaudhry (Diagnostic Radiology and Imaging Informatics, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California, USA)
Improving Outcomes in Lung Cancer through Early Diagnosis and Smoking Cessation
Guest Editor: Alfredo Tartarone (Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Onco-Hematology, IRCCS-CROB Referral Cancer Center of Basilicata, Rionero in Vulture, Italy)
Ethnic Difference in Lung Cancer
Guest Editors: Tomoya Kawaguchi (Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan); Phillip C. Mack (University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA)
Novel Diagnostic Techniques for Lung Cancer
Guest Editors: Fabien Maldonado and Dr. Robert Lentz (Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA)
Novel Concepts in Cardiopulmonary and Structural Heart Disease
Guest Editor: Christos G. Mihos (Columbia University Division of Cardiology, Mount Sinai Heart Institute, Miami Beach, FL, USA)
Mechanisms of Resistance to EGFR-targeted Therapy
Guest Editor: Trever G. Bivona (Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA)
Interventional Cardiology
Guest Editor: Ion S. Jovin (Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center and Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA)
IMDT Corner
The "IMDT Corner" features case report with International Multidisciplinary Team (iMDT) discussion, including the opinions of all relevant international health professionals discussing options and making joint decisions about treatment and supportive care plans, taking into account the personal preferences of the patient, to provide high quality, precision treatment options and management of the individual patient’s needs.
Meet the Professor
The "Meet the Professor" series features interviews with the global Key Opinion Leaders, providing a window into the new developments, breakthroughs, and achievements in the interviewees’ professional fields, both clinically and academically.
Sepsis: Science and Fiction
Guest Editor: Paul E. Marik (Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA)
Chest Wall Resection and Reconstruction
Guest Editors: Francesco Petrella (Department of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy); Lorenzo Spaggiari(Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy)
Advances in Multidisciplinary Care for COPD
Guest Editors: Henry M. Marshall, Annalicia Vaughan and Ian A. Yang (The Prince Charles Hospital, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
Esophageal Disease
Guest Editors: Ikenna C. Okereke (Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA)
The Advanced Lung Disease: Novel Therapies and Controversies Conference
Guest Editors: Gabriel Loor, Prasad Manian, Amit Parulekar (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA)
Cough Section
Section Director: Woo-Jung Song (University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea)
Grand Rounds
The Grand Rounds (GR) is designed to become one of the most featured columns in our journal. Currently, GR articles at JTD replay the sessions where a typically intractable case was discussed among a panel of physicians, radiologists, pathologists, thoracic surgeons, oncologists and other healthcare professionals.
Critical Care Frontier and Horizon
Column Editor: Haibo Zhang (Medicine and Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)
This column designs to feature original investigations, review articles, expert opinions, editorial and case report series in critical care medicine.
This column designs to feature original investigations, review articles, expert opinions, editorial and case report series in critical care medicine.
European Perspectives in Thoracic Surgery (2019)—The Sixth Edition
Guest Editors: Alessandro Brunelli (Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK); Enrico Ruffini (Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Torino, Italy)
Mechanical Circulatory Support for Heart and Lung Failure
Guest Editors: Anton Sabashnikov (Center for Extarcorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany); Aron-Frederik Popov (Department of Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany)
Improvements in Perioperative Care for Esophagectomy
Guest Editors: Misha D. P. Luyer (Department of Surgery, Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands); Miguel A. Cuesta (Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Population-based Research and Outcomes Associated with Thoracic Diseases
Guest Editors: Anthony W. Kim, Elizabeth A. David and David T. Cooke (Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Clinical Management of Thoracic Traumas
Guest Editors: Pier Luigi Filosso (Department of Surgical Sciences, Unit of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Torino, Italy); Tamas F. Molnar (Department of Operational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary)
Advances in Theranostic Biomarkers for Lung Cancer: from Clinical to Molecular Pathology
Guest Editor: Paul Hofman (Université Côte d’Azur, CHU Nice, FHU OncoAge, Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France)
Onco-Cardiology
Guest Editor: Tienush Rassaf (West German Heart and Vascular Center, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany)
Sleep Disordered Breathing and Cardiovascular Disease
Guest Editor: Walter T. McNicholas (School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
Enhanced Recovery: The Evidence Supporting Best Perioperative Care in Thoracic Surgery
Guest Editors: Patrick James Villeneuve and Sebastien Gilbert (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada)
The 4th International Uniportal VATS Course
Guest Editors: Mahmoud Ismail (Universitätsmedizin, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany); Diego Gonzalez-Rivas (Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain)
Unmet in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Guest Editor: Rodrigo Bagur (London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada)
Management of Database
Guest Editor: Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz (Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Strasbourg, France)
Medical and Surgical Management of Pulmonary Infections
Guest Editors: Virginia R. Litle (Division of Thoracic Surgery, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA); John D. Mitchell (Section of General Thoracic Surgery, University of Colorado, Colorado, USA)
Surgical and Endoscopic Treatment for COPD: Patients Selection, Techniques and Results
Guest Editor: Marco Scarci (Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy)
Dedicated to the 28th International Congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS 2018)
Guest Editors: Lieuwe D. J. Bos (The Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands); Mina Gaga (Asthma Centre, Athens Chest Hospital, Athens, Greece)
Atrial Septal Defect
Guest Editors: Alban-Elouen Baruteau (Department of Congenital Cardiology, CHU Nantes, Nantes, France); Shakeel A. Qureshi (Department of Congenital Cardiology, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK)
Lung Volume Reduction
Guest Editors: Daniel P. Franzen (Division of Pulmonology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland); Walter Weder (Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
The 4th International Joint Meeting on Thoracic Surgery, Barcelona, 2018
Guest Editors: Laureano Molins (Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Clínic & Sagrat Cor, Barcelona, Spain); Ramón Rami-Porta (Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Universitari Mútua Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain); José Belda Sanchis (Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Universitari Mútua Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain)
Advances in Radiation Oncology for Thoracic Malignancies
Guest Editors: Charles B. Simone II (Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA); Shahed N. Badiyan (Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA); Pranshu Mohindra (Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
Regenerative Medicine for Heart and Lung
Guest Editor: Francesco Petrella (Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy)
Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
Guest Editors: Ling Chen (State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China); Zifeng Yang (State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China)
Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital Second Thoracic Surgery Symposium
Guest Editors: Hon Chi Suen (Center for Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Louis, MO, USA); Francesco Puma (Thoracic Surgery Department, University of Perugia School of Medicine, Perugia, Italy)
Novel Surgical Techniques for Ventricular Assist Device Implantation
Guest Editors: Jan D. Schmitto and Anamika Chatterjee (Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany)
Asia Thoracic Cancer Care Summit 2018 (Part II)
Guest Editor: Calvin S. H. Ng (Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
Immunotherapy & Thoracic Cancers
Guest Editors: Antonio Rossi (Division of Medical Oncology, Scientific Institute for Research and Health Care (IRCCS) “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy); Silvia Novello (Department of Oncology, University of Turin, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria San Luigi Gonzaga, Orbassano (TO), Italy)
Nutritional Status and Muscle Dysfunction in Chronic Respiratory Disease: Stable Versus Acute Exacerbations
Guest Editors: Esther Barreiro (Institute of Medical Research of Hospital del Mar (IMIM)-Hospital del Mar, Parc de Salut Mar, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Barcelona, Spain); Ariel Jaitovich (Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA)
Focused on Enhanced Recovery Pathways in Thoracic Surgery
Guest Editors: Alan D. L. Sihoe (Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China); Anthony P. Yim (Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Ltd., Hong Kong, China)
Sublobar Resections for Lung Cancer
Guest Editor: Dominique Gossot (Thoracic Department, Curie-Montsouris Thoracic Institute, IMM, Paris, France)
Dedicated to the 26th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery (ESTS 2018)
Guest Editors: Alessandro Brunelli (Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK); Enrico Ruffini (Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Torino, Italy)
Early Detection and Diagnosis of Lung Cancer
Guest Editors: Rafael Rosell (Catalan Institute of Oncology, Germans Trias i Pujol Health Sciences Institute and Hospital, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain); Wenhua Liang (Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China)
Asia Thoracic Cancer Care Summit 2018 (Part I)
Guest Editor: Calvin S. H. Ng (Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
Contemporary Issues in Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Guest Editors: Federico Pappalardo (Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Raffaele Scientific Institute and San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milan Italy); Andrea Montisci (Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Sant’Ambrogio Cardiothoracic Center, Gruppo Ospedaliero San Donato, University and Research Hospitals, Milan, Italy)
Enhanced Recovery Pathways in Thoracic Surgery from Italian VATS Group
Guest Editors: Andrea Droghetti (Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, Carlo Poma Hospital, Viale Lago Paiolo, Mantova, Italy); Roberto Crisci (Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of L’Aquila, “G. Mazzini” Hospital, Teramo, Italy)
Immunotherapy in Lung Cancer
Guest Editors: Taofeek K. Owonikoko (Department of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA); Hossein Borghaei (Thoracic Oncology, Department of Medicine, Fox Chase Cancer Center/Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Present and Future of the Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
Guest Editors: Marco Lucchi, Alfredo Mussi (Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Pisa, Italy); Luca Bertolaccini (Division of Thoracic Surgery, Maggiore Teaching Hospital, Bologna, Italy); Roberto Crisci (Division of Thoracic Surgery, MeSVA Department, University of L’Aquila, Italy)
Dedicated to the 3rd Clinical Update Sleep: International Conference 2018, Endorsed by ERS
Guest Editor: Joerg Steier (King’s College London, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, London, UK)
GARD Section
Column Editors: Yousser Mohammad (Syrian Private University, Damascus, Syria); Alvaro Cruz (Federal University of Bahia, Bahia, Brazil)
Air Pollution
Column Editor: Junfeng (Jim) Zhang (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)
ECG Pearls
Column Editor: Adrian Baranchuk (Division of Cardiology, Kingston General Hospital, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
Quantitative Imaging of Thoracic Diseases
Column Editors: Yi Xiang J. Wang (Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.); Jiang Lin (Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
Dedicated to the 27th International Congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS 2017)
Guest Editors: Lieuwe D. J. Bos (The Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands); Mina Gaga (Asthma Centre, Athens Chest Hospital, Athens, Greece)
Thoracic (Lung & Thymic) Neuroendocrine Tumors
Guest Editor: Pier Luigi Filosso (Department of Surgical Sciences, Unit of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Torino, Italy)
Abstract Book for the 16th Annual Meeting of Taiwan Association of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery
Guest Editors: Yih-Sharng Chen, Jang-Ming Lee (National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan); Yin-Kai Chao (Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan)
The Evolving Concept of Liquid Biopsy in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients
Guest Editor: Alfredo Tartarone (IRCCS-CROB Referral Cancer Center of Basilicata, Rionero in Vulture (Pz), Italy)
Pulmonary Metastasectomy
Guest Editors: Francesco Petrella, Lorenzo Spaggiari (Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy)
Focused on Lung Cancer Precision Medicine
Guest Editor: Rafael Rosell (Catalan Institute of Oncology, Germans Trias i Pujol Health Sciences Institute and Hospital, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain)
Interventional Pulmonology
Guest Editor: Kassem Harris (New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA)
ICC Column: The Voice of the Patient
Past Column Editor: Lawrence Grouse (Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, USA)
Evidenced-Based Clinical Problem Solving Article
Column Editor: Zhongheng Zhang (Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China)
Interventional Pulmonology Corner (IP Corner)
Column Editor: Kassem Harris (New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA)
Statistics Corner
Column Editor: Luca Bertolaccini (Division of Thoracic Surgery, Maggiore Teaching Hospital, Bologna, Italy)
Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffolds for the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease
Guest Editors: Alfonso Ielasi (Cardiology Division, Bolognini Hospital, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Bergamo Est, Seriate (BG), Italy), Gianluca Campo (Cardiology Unit, Azienda Osedaliera Universitaria di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy)
Esophageal Cancer
Guest Editor: Miguel A. Cuesta (Department of Surgery, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Innovations in the management of valvular and structural heart disease
Guest Editor: Christos G. Mihos (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
Aortic Diseases
Guest Editor: Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero (Heart Area, Central University Hospital of Asturias, Oviedo, Spain)
EBUS-TBNA: Results and Perspective
Guest Editor: Andrea Imperatori (Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Ospedale di Circolo - Via Guicciardini, 9, Varese, Italy)
New Imaging and Diagnostic Modalities in Cardiac Surgery
Guest Editors: Antonino Di Franco, Lisa Q. Rong, and Mario Gaudino (Weill Cornell Medicine, NYC, NY, USA)
Dedicated to the 25th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery (ESTS 2017)
Guest Editors: Alessandro Brunelli (Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK); Enrico Ruffini (Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Torino, Italy)
Advances in Bronchoscopic and Endoscopic Interventions for Thoracic Disease
Guest Editors: Virginia R. Litle (Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA), Hiran C. Fernando (Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Falls Church, VA, USA)
Dedicated to the Munich Symposium on Cardiac Development (2016)
Guest Editors: Stefanie A. Doppler, Rüdiger Lange, Markus Krane (German Heart Center Munich, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany), Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz (German Center for Cardiovascular Research, partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany)
Management of Advanced Lung Cancer
Guest Editor: Pier Luigi Filosso (Department of Surgical Sciences, Unit of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Torino, Italy)
Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
Guest Editors: Shahzad G. Raja (Department of Cardiac Surgery, Harefield Hospital, London, UK), Umberto Benedetto (Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol University, Bristol, UK), David P. Taggart (Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK)
Image-Guided Management of Lung Diseases
Guest Editors: Jin-Shing Chen, Yeun-Chung Chang (National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan)
Asian Perspectives in Thoracic Surgery
Guest Editor: Alan D. L. Sihoe (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
Dedicated to the Annual Meeting of American Thoracic Society 2016
Guest Editors: Atul Malhotra, Ni-Cheng Liang (Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA)
Management of Pulmonary Nodules
Guest Editors: Calvin S. H. Ng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China), William S. Krimsky (Square Medical Central and Pulmonary & Critical Care Associates of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA)
Impact and Influence of Real-Life Respiratory Research - Abstracts from the Respiratory Effectiveness Group 2016 Summit
Guest Editor: David B. Price (Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK)
Dedicated to the 24th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery (ESTS 2016)
Guest Editors: Alessandro Brunelli (Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK); Enrico Ruffini (Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Torino, Italy)
Thymic Malignancy—Perspectives from the Chinese Alliance for Research in Thymomas (ChART)
Guest Editor: Robert J. Korst (Thoracic Surgery, The Valley Health System, Chair, Oncology Services, Valley Medical Group, Paramus, NJ 07652, USA)
Dedicated to the 4th Asian Single Port VATS Symposium
Guest Editors: Chia-Chuan Liu (Department of Surgery Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taiwan), Po-Kuei Hsu (School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan)
Surgery of Airway
Guest Editors: Federico Venuta (Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy), Erino Angelo Rendina (University La Sapienza, Ospedale Sant’Andrea, Via di Grottarossa 1035, Rome, Italy)
Post-operative Care in Thoracic Surgery
Guest Editor: Alan D. L. Sihoe (Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
Dedicated to the International Conference: Clinical Update Sleep 2016
Guest Editors: Culadeeban Ratneswaran, Joerg Steier (Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK), Jameel Mushtaq (St George’s University of London, London, UK)
Advances and Controversies in Pleural Diseases
Guest Editors: José M. Porcel (Department of Internal Medicine, Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital, Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida, Lleida, Spain), Georgios Statophoulos (Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Patras, Patras, Greece), Yun Chor Gary Lee (Respiratory Department, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, & Centre for Asthma, Allergy & Respiratory Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia)
Dedicated to the 23rd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery (2015 ESTS)
Guest Editors: Alessandro Brunelli (Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK); Enrico Ruffini (Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Torino, Italy)