Vol 16, No 4 (April 30, 2024): Journal of Thoracic Disease

Original Article

Perioperative outcomes of robotic versus video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in non-small cell lung cancer patients after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy
Wangchao Yao, Ziyun Shen, Lele Zhang, Xinsheng Zhu, Yicheng Xiong, Meixin Teng, Yang Qing, Jing Zhang, Peng Zhang
Prognostic factors in lung transplantation after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation bridging therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Yan Zhu, Fei Zeng, Mei-Juan Lan, Jiang-Shu-Yuan Liang, Ling-Yun Cai, Pei-Pei Gu, Lu-Yao Guo
Individualized treatment of type A intramural hematoma—upfront surgery is not always necessary
Simon Chi-Ying Chow, Kevin Lim, Tak-Wai Lum, Jacky Yan-Kit Ho, Song Wan, Takuya Fujikawa, Randolph Hung-Leung Wong
Evaluation of a new surgical procedure for simultaneous resection of synchronous thoracic middle-lower segment esophageal and distal gastric cancers
Xusheng Ding, Bin Li, Hui Shen, Zezhou Wang, Longlong Shao, Jiaqing Xiang
Pazopanib attenuated bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis via suppressing TGF-β1 signaling pathway
Kai Huang, Qianyi Zhang, Hao Ruan, Chunyu Guo, Shuyang Wu, Qinyi Liu, Deqiang Zhang, Shida Long, Wenrui Wang, Zhou Wu, Li Tian, Shuangyan Gao, Huanan Zhao, Xiaoting Gu, Huijun Yin, Cheng Yang
Echocardiographic right ventricular evaluation in cardiac surgery patients undergoing mitral valve reconstruction: a single center prospective observational study
Ali Haddad, Ahmed Mohamed, Sven Arends, Bassam Ishak, Olga Tsarenko, Ilir Balaj, Markus Kamler, Thorsten Brenner, Sharaf-Eldin Shehada
Health-related quality of life after minimal-invasive treatment of aortic valve stenosis in the elderly
Terézia B. Andrási, Celine Schellenberg, Alina Vasiloi, Alannah C. Glück
Suction versus non-suction drainage strategy after uniportal thoracoscopic lung surgery: a prospective cohort study
Yang Qiu, Jian Zhou, Dongsheng Wu, Ailin Luo, Mei Yang, Quan Zheng, Tengyong Wang, Qiang Pu
A validated model to predict spread through air space in lung adenocarcinoma
Yuting Zheng, Xiaoyu Han, Hanting Li, Qinyue Luo, Chengyu Ding, Kailu Zhang, Jun Fan, Wenjuan Zeng, Heshui Shi
Gastrointestinal bleeding risk factors in type A aortic dissection post-aortic arch replacement
Junhai Hao, Jiaxin Li, Hanxiao Zhang, Jia Chen, Miaoxian Fang, Meifen Wu, Bowen Gu, Yingkai Xiao, Liming Lei
Yiqigubiao pill treatment regulates Sirtuin 5 expression and mitochondrial function in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Ting Meng, Feng-Sen Li, Dan Xu, Jing Jing, Zheng Li, Miyesier Maimaitiaili, Yong-Jiang Bao
Clinical outcomes of radiofrequency catheter ablation guided by intracardiac echocardiography for Chinese atrial fibrillation patients: a single-center, retrospective study
Dongchen Zhou, Jian Yang, Biqi Zhang, Jie Han, Chenyu Zuo, Xingwei Lu, Jianwei Xuan, Xiaogang Guo
Compatible with fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis on high-resolution computed tomography: from the ATS/JRS/ALAT 2020 hypersensitivity pneumonitis guidelines
Shota Kaburaki, Ryo Okuda, Tamiko Takemura, Eri Hagiwara, Masahiro Seike, Akihiko Gemma, Takashi Ogura
Subnormothermic ex vivo lung perfusion possibly protects against ischemia-reperfusion injury via the mTORC-HIF-1α pathway
Jee Won Suh, Soo Jin Park, Young Wha Koh, Daun Seo, Seokjin Haam
Safety and efficacy of delayed completion lobectomy following wedge resection vs. segmentectomy—a retrospective cohort study
Yimu Wu, Kaiqi Jin, Linlin Qin, Zhaoxun Li, Xiaoxiong Xu, Jie Dai, Xiaogang Liu, Xinnan Xu, Xiao Zhou, Gening Jiang
Early and mid-term outcomes of tricuspid valve surgery in patients with functional tricuspid regurgitation induced by atrial fibrillation
Eun Chae Kim, Nazla Amanda Soehartono, Sue Hyun Kim, Yeiwon Lee, Suk Ho Sohn, Ho Young Hwang, Kyung Hwan Kim, Jae Woong Choi
Relationship of various COVID-19 antibody titer with individual characteristics and prediction of future epidemic trend in Xiamen City, China
Liansheng Xu, Buasiyamu Abudunaibi, Zhiqi Zeng, Yunkang Zhao, Yao Wang, Xiaohao Guo, Yidun Zhang, Tao Li, Wenkui Lu, Weiliang Tian, Zhinan Guo, Chenghao Su, Tianmu Chen
Screening and identification of hub genes for ischemic cardiomyopathy and construction and validation of a clinical prognosis model using bioinformatics analysis
Jing Wang, Liying Tang, Yuzhi Bai, Xia Zhao, Tian Tian, Christos G. Mihos, Eva Maria Javier Delmo, Pei Li
Prognostic impact of spread through air spaces in patients with ≤2 cm stage IA lung adenocarcinoma
Xiao Chen, Hangcheng Zhou, Mingsheng Wu, Meiqing Xu, Tian Li, Jun Wang, Xiaohui Sun, Yasuhiro Tsutani, Mingran Xie
Transcriptome analysis revealed the new mechanism of the intra-myocardial injectable alginate-hydrogel in the treatment of ventricular function degradation
Huiyong Wang, Ting Zhou, Wentao Ma, Ji Zheng, Zhiyong Cao, Caiyun He, Pedro A. Lemos, Jianfang Luo
CXCR7 promotes pulmonary vascular remodeling via targeting p38/MMP2 pathway in pulmonary arterial hypertension
Jingjing Xu, Shuai Miao, Tianjun Wu, Chunxiao Hu, Dongxiao Huang, Xin Zhang
A preliminary study of modified inflatable mediastinoscopic and single-incision plus one-port laparoscopic esophagectomy
Hua Tang, Zhihao Song, Rongqiang Wei, Kai Yan, Zihao Chen, Kenan Huang, Ning Xin, Noriyuki Hirahara, Inderpal S. Sarkaria, Xinyue Li, Bin Wu, Zhifei Xu
Developing and validating machine learning-based prediction models for frailty occurrence in those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Yong Chen, Yonglin Yu, Dongmei Yang, Wenbo Zhang, Vasileios Kouritas, Xiaoju Chen
Accurate etiological diagnosis of Mycoplasma hominis mediastinitis in immunocompetent patients using metagenomic next-generation sequencing: a case series and literature review
Sishi Cai, Jue Pan, Suzhen Wang, Rong Bao, Chunmei Zhou, Xiaodong Gao, Haruhiko Shiiya, Bijie Hu
ALAS2 overexpression alleviates oxidative stress-induced ferroptosis in aortic aneurysms via GATA1 activation
Yunjun He, Xiaohui Wang, Donglin Li, Qianqian Zhu, Yilang Xiang, Yangyan He, Hongkun Zhang
The predictive and prognostic value of risk factors in patients receiving hybrid coronary revascularization with postoperative pulmonary complications
Shanshan Mu, Yingqi Chen, Jiawan Wang, Jingjing Guo, Ruitong Niu, Yang Zhang, Pixiong Su, Jason M. Ali, Jie Gao, Anshi Wu
Etiological diagnostic performance of probe capture-based targeted next-generation sequencing in bloodstream infection
Sishi Cai, Jianying Yuan, Yingzhen Li, Fengming Guo, Zengshun Lin, Hongyi Li, Qing Miao, Tingting Fang, Yuan Wu, Xiaodong Gao, Pei Li, Jun Liu, Chaohui Hu, Bijie Hu
An esophagectomy surgical Apgar score-based nomogram—a risk-based postoperative triage system: a phase II randomised trial
Xiaohan Chen, Yong Xi, Chengbin Lin, Hongyan Yu, Jae Y. Kim, Jon O. Wee, Xianneng He, Jiajun Gao, Weiyu Shen
Automatic 3D coronary artery segmentation based on local region active contour model
Xiaohong Chen, Jufeng Jiang, Xiaofeng Zhang
Revealing the oncogenic role of elevated GNL3L expression in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: insights into the STAT3 pathway
Shaobin Yu, Peipei Zhang, Shaojun Xu, Zhang Xiang, Ankit Madan, Guy D. Eslick, Farshid Dayyani, Shuchen Chen
The quality of life of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a bibliometric analysis
Xiaxia Wu, Zhongyang Liu, Chenpan Xu, Till Plönes, Hong Wang

Review Article

Enhanced recovery after chest wall resection and reconstruction: a clinical practice review
Céline Forster, Valentin Jacques, Etienne Abdelnour-Berchtold, Thorsten Krueger, Jean Yannis Perentes, Matthieu Zellweger, Michel Gonzalez
Patient selection, surgery and perioperative management in lung transplantation in Japan
Chihiro Konoeda, Masaaki Sato
Blood flow assessment technology in aortic surgery: a narrative review
Yu Hohri, Megan M. Chung, Viswajit Kandula, Ilya Kim, Jay Leb, Hideyuki Hayashi, Adham Elmously, Thomas FX O’Donnell, Virendra Patel, Vijay Vedula, Hiroo Takayama
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for general thoracic surgery: case series and narrative review
Megan E. Campany, Britton B. Donato, Pedro Reck dos Santos, Cory M. Alwardt, Kristin Sell-Dottin, Stephanie Blakeman, Penny Hung, Ayan Sen, Patrick DeValeria, Lara Schaheen, Jonathan D’Cunha
Machine learning in cardiac surgery: a narrative review
Travis J. Miles, Ravi K. Ghanta
Automatic detection of obstructive sleep apnea based on speech or snoring sounds: a narrative review
Shuang Cao, Ivana Rosenzweig, Federico Bilotta, Hong Jiang, Ming Xia

Editorial Commentary

The ideal regional block after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: do we have it?
Sarah Lumsden, Emily Lai, Juan P. Cata
Is paravertebral block the new standard of care for postoperative analgesia after thoracoscopic surgery?
Alberto Aiolfi, Davide Bona, Galyna Shabat, Marco Resta, Luigi Bonavina
Not all that glitters is gold
Marco Anile, Francesco Ferrante, Beatrice Zacchini, Angelina Pernazza, Massimiliano Bassi, Jacopo Vannucci, Federico Venuta
Pure ground-glass opacity of the lung: making the case for a lasting cure
Mohammad Abdallat, Danny Jonigk, Hassan A. Khalil
The impact of neoadjuvant therapy on postoperative outcomes following sleeve lobectomy for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a call for future investigation
Rajika Jindani, Brendon Stiles
Neoadjuvant therapy and sleeve lobectomy for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer: morbidity and survival balancing
Alessio Campisi, Giorgio Cannone, Vincenzo Verzeletti, Andrea Dell’Amore
Advancing coronary artery bypass grafting: the fasudil-nitroglycerin cocktail as a potential antispastic solution
Michael Dashwood, Domingos Souza, Gökce Topal
Global implementation of individualized lung cancer care requires wide adoption of molecular tumor profiling
Nathaniel Deboever, Mara B. Antonoff

Images in Clinical Medicine

COVID-19 infection in a lung transplant recipient
Yuan Zeng, Guilin Peng, Chao Yang, Mengyang Liu, Jianxing He, Xin Xu