Corresponding Authors
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Fernando Conrado Abrão, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, São Paulo, Brazil
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Firas Emad Abu Akar
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Al-Makassed Charitable Society Hospital, East Jerusalem, Affiliated to Al-Quds University School of Medicine, Jerusalem 97103, Palestine
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Shakeel Ahmed, FCPS, MRCP
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Al Wakra Hospital, Al Wakra, Qatar
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Yong Chan Ahn, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Chadi Aludaat, MD
Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantation, Rouen University Hospital, Normandy, France
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Ahmed S. BaHammam, MD, FRCP
The University Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Jobelle J. A. R. Baldonado, MD
Department of Thoracic Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA; Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA; Department of Surgery, University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA; Department of Oncologic Sciences, University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA
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Martin Balik
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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Victor Bautista-Hernandez, MD, PhD, FEBC
William E. De Bakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine/Christus Health Santa Rosa, San Antonio, TX, USA
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Alain Bernard
Department General Thoracic, Surgery, CHU Dijon University of Burgundy, France
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Pietro Bertoglio, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS Sacro Cuore-Don Calabria Hospital, Via Sempreboni 5, 37024 Negrar di Valpolicella, VR, Italy
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Shanda H. Blackmon
Division of General Thoracic Surgery, 200 1st St SW, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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Abraham B. Bohadana, MD
Pulmonary Institute, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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Massimo Bonacchi
Cardiac Surgery, Medical and Surgical Critical Care Department, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Alberto Caballero Vázquez, MD (Pulmonology)
Interventional Pulmonology Unit, Pneumology Service, Universitary Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
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Bruno Cabrita, MD
Praceta António Coelho Figueiredo, nº56, 4º Esquerdo Traseiras, 4405-080 V. N. Gaia, Portugal
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Marcin M. Cackowski
Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Research Institute of Chest Diseases, Warsaw, Poland
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Vera Luiza Capelozzi, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology, University of São Paulo Medical School (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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Cristiano Matteo Carbonelli
Department of Medical Sciences, Fondazione IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, (FG), Italy
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Thierry P. Carrel
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Angelo Carretta
Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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Xiangping Chai, MD
Department of Emergency Medicine, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Hunan, China
Tao Chen, MD
Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, People’s Hospital of Deyang City, Deyang, China
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Chun Chen, MD(Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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Haiquan Chen, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai 200032, China; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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Liang Chen, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jiangsu Province People’s Hospital and the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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Chao Cheng, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
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Wei Cheng, PhD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), Chongqing, China
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Kwang Ree Cho, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sejong General Hospital, Bucheon, Republic of Korea
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Jae Woong Choi, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul national University Hospital,
Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Chong Chu
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430022, Wuhan, China
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Chung-Ming Chu, MD, MSc, FRCP, FCCP
Department of Medicine & Geriatrics, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong, China
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Mui Teng Chua, MBBS, MPH
Emergency Medicine Department, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore;
Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Jae Ho Chung, MD, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine, International St. Mary’s Hospital, Catholic Kwandong University College of Medicine, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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Kristoffer Mazanti Cold
Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation (CAMES), Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Sara Colella, MD
Pulmonary Unit, “C. & G. Mazzoni Hospital”, Ascoli Piceno, Italy
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Rodrigo A. Cornejo MD
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile. Member of Universidad de Chile's Faculty since 2001
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Miguel A. Cuesta , MD
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Vrije University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Antonio D'Andrilli, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sapienza University, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189 Rome, Italy
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Yuanrong Dai, MD
Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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Hiroyuki Daiko, MD, PhD
Department of Esophageal Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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Paul Davis, PhD
St John Ambulance Service, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand;
Northern Rescue Helicopter Trust, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand
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Angela De Palma, MD, PhD
Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Medical School, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
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Li Deng, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang, China
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Oliver Deutsch, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, German Heart Centre Munich, Munich, Germany
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Jianyong Ding, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Cancer Center, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Supparerk Disayabutr, MD
Division of Respiratory Disease and Tuberculosis, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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Nianguo Dong, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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Frank Lennox Douglas
HOHO Biotech Co.,Ltd., Taipei City
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Xinling Du, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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Koray Durak
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, RWTH University Hospital, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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Leonardo Duranti, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy
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Takashi Eguchi, MD, PhD, FCCP, FACS
Senior Assistant Professor, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan
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Sora Ely
Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco – East Bay, Oakland, CA, USA
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Shunsuke Endo, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan
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Laura Evangelista, MD, PhD
Nuclear Medicine Unit – Department of Medicine – DIMED, University of Padua, Italy
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Wentao Fang, MD, Professor
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China
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Giovanni Ferrara, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Divisional Director, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, 3-134 Clinical Sciences Building, 11304 83 Ave., Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada
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Ricard Ferrer, MD, PhD
Department of Intensive Care, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Passeig de Vall d’Hebron 119-129, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
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Silvia Fiorelli, MD
Department of Clinical and Surgical Translational Medicine, University Sapienza, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy
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Pr. Marios E. Froudarakis, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Medical School Democritus University of Thrace, and University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupol, Greecei
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Yutaka Fujii, PhD
Department of Clinical Engineering and Medical Technology, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan
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Simone Furia, MD, PhD
Thoracic Surgery Unit, Ospedale dell’Angelo Venezia-Mestre, Italy
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John W. Gamel, MD
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky, USA
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Taichiro Goto, MD
Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Head of the center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
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Bastian Grande, MD, PD
Institute of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
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Shanghui Guan, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China
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Paul Halford, MBBS, BSc
Academic Respiratory Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Zhijun Han, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, CAMS & PUMC, Beijing, China
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Waqar Haque, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Houston Methodist Hospital, Cancer Center and Research Institute, Weil Cornell Medical College, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Kassem Harris, MD, FCCP
Department of Medicine, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA
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Mark Hennon, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, NY, USA
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Kyoji Hirai, MD
Department of thoracic surgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan
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Takahiro Homma, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
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Hong Hu, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai 200032, China; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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Runlei Hu, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hangzhou First People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Fang Huang
Associate Professor, Institute for Immunization and Prevention, Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Beijing, China
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Ho Young Hwang, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul national University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Junji Ichinose, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, the Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation of Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan
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Masayoshi Inoue, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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Atsushi Ito, MD
Department of General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Mie University School of Medicine, Mie, Japan
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Hyun Woo Jeon, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Bucheon St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Young-Hoon Jeong
Changwon Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Korea
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Lei Jiang, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, No. 507 Zhengmin Road, Shang Hai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai 200433, China
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Wei Jiang, MD, Associate Senior Physician
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Junhong Jiang, MD, PhD
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dushu Lake Hospital Affiliated to Soochow University, Suzhou, China; Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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Wenjie Jiao
Jiangsu Road, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China
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Shou-De Jin, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, China
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Satoshi Kainuma
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
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Fayez Kheir MD, MSc
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Dohun Kim
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University and Hospital, Cheongju, South Korea
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Jae Yeol Kim, MD
Department of Internal Medicine, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, 102 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Yong-Hee Kim, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Daegu Catholic University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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Hojoong Kim, MD, PhD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Jae Hyun Kim, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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Joon Bum Kim, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Athanasios D. Kleontas, BSc, MD, MSc, Dr(Med)Sc, BTS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Interbalkan Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Hiroshi Kubota, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan
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Masatoshi Kurihara, MD, PhD
Pneumothorax Research Center, Nissan Tamagawa Hospital, Public Foundation Nissan Kohseikai, Tokyo, Japan
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Jonathan S. Kurman, MD, MBA
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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Juan Lacalzada-Almeida, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain
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Taehoon Lee, MD, PhD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, Korea
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Woo Surng Lee, MD, PhD
Professor in Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery & Intensive Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Konkuk University, Republic of Korea
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Liming Lei, MD, PhD
Department of Intensive Care Unit of Cardiac Surgery, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of South China Structural Heart Disease, Guangzhou, China
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He-Fei Li, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University, Baoding, China
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Bai-Ling Li, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Changhai Hospital, The Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China
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Shuben Li, PhD
Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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Yongde Liao
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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Marc J. Licker, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Intensive Care, University Hospital Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Frank Cheau-Feng Lin, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung
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HuiQing Lin, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
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Lingxiang Liu, MD
Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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Yangchun Liu, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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Hongxu Liu, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Cancer Hospital of China Medical University, Liaoning Cancer Hospital & Institute, Shenyang 110042, China
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Jianxiong Liu, PhD
State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Chest Hospital, Guangzhou, China
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Zhidong Liu, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing, China
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Shun Lu
Shanghai Lung Cancer Center, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China
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Natalie S. Lui, MD, MAS
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA
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JieTao Ma, MD
Department of Clinical Oncology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110022, China
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Kaoru Matsuura
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Funabashi Municipal Medical Center, Funabashi City, Chiba, Japan
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Yafei Mi, MD, PHD
Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Taizhou Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Taizhou 317000, China
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Andrew C. Miller, MD
Department of Emergency Medicine, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, USA
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Takuro Miyazaki, MD, PhD
Department of Surgical Oncology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
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Shanada Monestime, PharmD, BCOP
Department of Science and Research, GO2 for Lung Cancer, Washington, DC, USA
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Tiffany Moon, MD
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390-9068, USA.
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Youngkyu Moon, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 1021, Tongil-ro, Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul 03312, Republic of Korea
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Clinton T. Morgan, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky 740 S. Limestone, Suite A301, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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Junsheng Mu, MD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing, China
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Dania Nachira, MD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
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Takuya Nagashima
Department of thoracic surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan
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Calvin S. H. Ng
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China
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Hitomi Nogawa, MD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan
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James O'Rourke
Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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Takashi Ohtsuka, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery
The Jikei University, School of Medicine Tokyo, Japan
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Hiroyuki Oizumi, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular, Thoracic and Pediatric Surgery (Second Department of Surgery), Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Japan
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Ikenna C. Okereke, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA
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Alvin Shao Qiang Ong
Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore
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Xiangbin Pan
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, China & Fuwai Cardiovascular Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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Philip Y. K. Pang
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore
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Dazhi Pang, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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Joo Hun Park, MD
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine, Worldcup Road 164, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 16499, Republic of Korea
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Kay-Hyun Park, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 13620, Republic of Korea
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Pyo Won Park, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea and Director of Cardiovascular Center, Mediplex Sejong Hospital, Incheon, Korea
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Kelly M. Pennington, MD
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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Joachim Pfannschmidt, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Clinic Heckeshorn, Helios Hospital Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany
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Roberto Piro, MD
Pulmonology Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale - IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Italy
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Guangliang Qiang, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
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Mohamed Rahouma, MD
Surgical Oncology Department, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cairo University, Egypt
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) / New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA
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Dr. Rasmus Rivinius
Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Parinya Ruenwilai, MD
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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Biplab K. Saha, MD
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Ozarks Medical Center, West Plains, Missouri, USA
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Yuichi Sakairi, MD, PhD
Associate professor of Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
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Noriaki Sakakura, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
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Masaaki Sato, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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Adriana Scamporlino, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy
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Stefan Schraag, MD, PhD, FRCA, FFICM
Department of Anaesthesia and Periopera;ve Medicine, Golden Jubilee Na;onal Hospital, Agamemnon Street, Clydebank G81 4DY, UK
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Kenneth Patrick Seastedt, EMBA, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Kimihiro Shimizu, MD, PhD
Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Integrative Center of General Surgery; Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Hospital, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.
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Shuichi Shinohara
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chubu Rosai Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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Yasushi Shintani, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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Redmond B. Shouldice, PhD, MBA
ResMed Sensor Technologies. Blocks 9/10, NexusUCD, Belfield Office Park, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Chang Shu, MD, PhD
Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100037, China
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Phillip M. Singer
Political Science Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Adrianna Skoczek, MA
The Clinical Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases with the Intensive Cardiac Supervision Subdivision, Institute of Cardiology, Collegium Medicum of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (Poland), John Paul II Hospital, Cracow, Poland
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Lele Song, MD, PhD
Department of Radiotherapy, the Eighth Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100091, China
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María Elena Soto, MD, MSc, PhD
Department of Immunology Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, and Chief in Research in the department of the cardiovascular line in Hospital Centro Medico ABC (Campus Observatorio) Mexico City, Mexico
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Marco Sperandeo
Unit of Interventional and Diagnostic Ultrasound in Internal Medicine, Department of Medical Sciences, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
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Giulia M. Stella, MD, PhD
Department of Hematological, Pneumological and Cardiovascular Sciences - Section of Pneumology, University and Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico, Pavia, Italy
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Erich Stoelben, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Clinic, Hospital of the City of Cologne, University of Witten-Herdecke, Cologne, Germany
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Xiaogang Sun, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fuwai Hospital, National Centre for Cardiovacular Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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Ying-Shi Sun, MD
Department of Radiology, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, China
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Yihua Sun, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai 200032, China; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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Kei Suzuki, MD MS FACS
Division of Thoracic Surgery, INOVA, Schar Cancer Institute, Falls Church, VA, USA
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Yusuke Takahashi, MD, PhD
Division of Oncoimmunology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, 1-1 Kanoko-den, Chikusa, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8681, Japan
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Yoshiaki Takase, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine and Hospital, Sapporo, Japan
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Yugo Tanaka, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Qing Tang, MD
Department of Ultrasound, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, 151 Yanjiang Rd., Guangzhou 510120, China
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Apichat Tantraworasin, MD, PhD
General Thoracic Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand; Clinical Surgical Research Center, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand; Clinical Epidemiology and Clinical Statistic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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Desi K. M. ter Woerds
Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Min Tian, MD
Department of Vascular Surgery, Yan’an Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
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Xue Tian, MD
Emergency Critical Care Center,
Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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Davide Tosi
Unit of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milano, Italy
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Steven P. Tropello, MD MS
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Guo-wei Tu, MD, PhD
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Hideki Ujiie, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
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Erik H. F. M. van der Heijden, MD, PhD
Professor of Interventional Pulmonology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Rodrigo Vazquez Guillamet
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Washington University - Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA
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Song Wan, MD, FRCS, FACC
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hong Kong, China;
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China
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Kuang-Yih Wang
HOHO Biotech Co.,Ltd., Taipei City
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Jinguang Wang
Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medicine University, Dalian 116000, China
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Xianyue Wang, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, General Hospital of Southern Theater Command, PLA (People’s Liberation Army), Guangzhou, China
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Bing-Yen Wang, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, China
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Zhengjun Wang, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shandong Provincial Hospital affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, China
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Qun Wang, MD, Professor
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Takuya Watanabe, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Respiratory Disease Center, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
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Fu-Zong Wu, MD
Department of Radiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Institute of Education, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Guang-Ping Wu, MD, PhD, Professor. Chief physician, Doctoral tutor
Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital and College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China
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Jingxiang Wu, MD, Professor
Department of Anaesthesiology, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China
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Han Xiao, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430022, China
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Jianfeng Xu
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Shaoxing People’s Hospital, Shaoxing Hospital of Zhejiang University, Shaoxing, China
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Shin-ichi Yamashita, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic, Breast, and Pediatric Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Nanakuma, Jonanku, Fukuoka, Japan
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Yi Yang, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China
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Hee Chul Yang, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Center for Lung Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea
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Zhaoxiang Ye, MD
Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China
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Sai Yendamuri, MD, FACS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York;
Department of Surgery, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
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Kaiyan Yu
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Chest Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Fenglei Yu, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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Zhentao Yu, PhD, MD, FRCS
Department of Esophageal Cancer, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer and Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin 300060, China
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Jia Yuzhu, MD
Jia Yuzhu Deputy chief radiologist, MD ,Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Provence, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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Yuansheng Zang, MD, PhD
Department of Medical Oncology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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Fei Zeng, MS
Department of Nursing, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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Ni Zhang, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China
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Qi Zhang, MD (Cardiology)
Associate Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tongji University
Deputy Director, Department of Cardiology, Shanghai East Hospital Tongji University
Director, Coronary Intervention Center, Shanghai East Hospital Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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Guanxin Zhang, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Changhai Hospital, The Naval Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
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Bu-Chun Zhang, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Jiangsu, PR China
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Chongbo Zhao, MD
Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Jin-Bo Zhao, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University (The Fourth Military Medical University, FMMU), Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
First Authors
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Muteb Al Zaidi
Department of Thoracic and Upper GI Surgery
King Abdullah Medical City, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
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Tim Bishop, MS, DO candidate
Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, South Carolina, United States of America
Department of Neuroscience, Wake Baptist Hospital, North Carolina, United States of America
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Agata Dżeljilji, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NITLD), Warsaw, Poland
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Ayman El-Menyar
Director, Trauma and Vascular Research and Development Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar
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Jianxing He, MD, FACS
State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
Sang-Bum Hong
Departmemt of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Yucheng Hou
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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Ziliang Hou, MD
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Luhe Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
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Terunaga Inage, MD, PhD
Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital - University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Chunrong Ju, MD
State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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Paula R. Keschenau
European Vascular Center Aachen-Maastricht, Department of Vascular Surgery, RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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Won-Young Kim, MD, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Evangelos Koliakos, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal CHUM, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Lan Lan, MD
Department of Anesthesiology, the first affiliated hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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Ke Meng, MD
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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Ran Mo, MD (Cardiothoracic Surgery)
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing, China
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Mohammed Morjan, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Center Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany
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Bruna Pellini, MD
Department of Thoracic Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA
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Sebastian D. Sahli, MD
Institute of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Leifur Thrainsson, MD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Junjie Xi, MD, Attending Physician
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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Guobing Xu
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fujian Medical University, Fujian Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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Tomohiro Yazawa, MD, PhD
Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Integrative Center of General Surgery; Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Hospital, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
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Jiacheng Yin, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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Qingchen Yuan, MD
Department of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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Jia Yuzhu, MD
Jia Yuzhu Deputy chief radiologist, MD ,Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Provence, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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Liming Zhu, MA
Department of Oncology, Wuxi Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Wuxi, China
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Mariusz P. Łochowski, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery. The Medical University of Lodz, Regional Multi-Specialist Center for Oncology and Traumatology of the Nicolaus Copernicus Memorial Hospital in Lódź, Poland