Vol 8, No 5 (May 01, 2016) - Journal of Thoracic Disease

Editorial

Failure of noninvasive ventilation in adult patients with acute asthma exacerbation

Mabrouk Bahloul, Kamilia Chtara, Rahma Gargouri, Ali Majdoub, Anis Chaari, Mounir Bouaziz

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Permissive hypoxemia/conservative oxygenation strategy: Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?

Huai-Wu He, Da-Wei Liu

PDF Pages: 748-750 Full Text (3970) Open Access

Prolonged mechanical ventilation and chronic critical illness

Guillermo Bugedo, Mohamud Egal, Jan Bakker

PDF Pages: 751-753 Full Text (2911) Open Access

Clinical perspective of optical coherence tomography and intravascular ultrasound in STEMI patients

Mario Iannaccone, Paolo Vadalà, Fabrizio D’ascenzo, Antonio Montefusco, Claudio Moretti, Maurizio D’amico, Fiorenzo Gaita

PDF Pages: 754-756 Full Text (3575) Open Access

The role of the gray-to-white matter ratio to predict the prognosis of cardiac arrest treated with ECMO

Jesús López-Herce, Jimena Del Castillo

PDF Pages: 757-761 Full Text (3945) Open Access

Acetazolamide use in severe COPD exacerbations requiring invasive mechanical ventilation: impact on duration of mechanical ventilation

Mabrouk Bahloul, Kamilia Chtara, Hedi Chelly, Kais Regaieg, Anis Chaari, Mounir Bouaziz

PDF Pages: 762-764 Full Text (3093) Open Access

Routine use of preoperative breast MRI for patients considered for intraoperative radiotherapy

Mehee Choi, William Small Jr, Bahman Emami

PDF Pages: 765-768 Full Text (2598) Open Access

Original Article

Bioprosthetic versus mechanical prostheses for valve replacement in end-stage renal disease patients: systematic review and meta-analysis

Kevin Phan, Dong Fang Zhao, Jessie J. Zhou, Aran Karagaratnam, Steven Phan, Tristan D. Yan

PDF Pages: 769-777 Full Text (5058) Open Access

Comparison of the single-lumen endotracheal tube and double-lumen endobronchial tube used in minimally invasive cardiac surgery for the fast track protocol

Hee Young Kim, Seung-Hoon Baek, Hyung Gon Je, Tae Kyun Kim, Hye Jin Kim, Ji Hye Ahn, Soon Ji Park

PDF Pages: 778-783 Full Text (4221) Open Access

A study about different findings of PET-CT between neoadjuvant and non-neoadjuvant therapy: SUV_max is not a reliable predictor of lymphatic involvement after neoadjuvant therapy for esophageal cancer

Jae Kil Park, Jae Jun Kim, Seok Whan Moon

PDF Pages: 784-794 Full Text (3041) Open Access

Therapeutic value of lymph node dissection for right middle lobe non-small-cell lung cancer

Hiroaki Kuroda, Yukinori Sakao, Mingyon Mun, Noriko Motoi, Yuichi Ishikawa, Ken Nakagawa, Yasushi Yatabe, Sakae Okumura

PDF Pages: 795-802 Full Text (3689) Open Access

Prevalence of neutralizing antibodies to common respiratory viruses in intravenous immunoglobulin and in healthy donors in southern China

Xingui Tian, Zaixue Jiang, Qiang Ma, Qian Liu, Xiaomei Lu, Wenkuan Liu, Xiaohong Liao, Rong Zhou, Xiaobo Su, Qingming Luo

PDF Pages: 803-812 Full Text (4701) Open Access

Noninvasive and invasive positive pressure ventilation for acute respiratory failure in critically ill patients: a comparative cohort study

Annelijn M. Meeder, Dave H. T. Tjan, Arthur R. H. van Zanten

PDF Pages: 813-825 Full Text (6509) Open Access

Translocation of left inferior lobe pulmonary artery to the pulmonary artery trunk for central type non-small cell lung cancers

Yifeng Sun, Yang Yang, Yong Chen, Xufeng Pan, Yu Yang, Wen Gao, Heng Zhao, Jianxin Shi

PDF Pages: 826-832 Full Text (3665) Open Access

Plasma microRNAs expression profile in female workers occupationally exposed to mercury

Enmin Ding, Qiuni Zhao, Ying Bai, Ming Xu, Liping Pan, Qingdong Liu, Bosheng Wang, Xianping Song, Jun Wang, Lin Chen, Baoli Zhu

PDF Pages: 833-841 Full Text (4447) Open Access

Emergency department enlargement in China: exciting or bothering

Yan Li, Chen Li, Jun Xu, Hui Zhang, Liangliang Zheng, Dongqi Yao, Yangyang Fu, Huadong Zhu, Shubin Guo, Zhong Wang, Joseph Walline, Xuezhong Yu

PDF Pages: 842-847 Full Text (4309) Open Access

Severe adenovirus community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent adults: chest radiographic and CT findings

Dingyu Tan, Yangyang Fu, Jun Xu, Zhiwei Wang, Jian Cao, Joseph Walline, Huadong Zhu, Xuezhong Yu

PDF Pages: 848-854 Full Text (8650) Open Access

The equivalent efficacy of multiple operations for multiple primary lung cancer and a single operation for single primary lung cancer

Liang Dai, He-Li Yang, WanPu Yan, Zhen Liang, Hong-Chao Xiong, Xiao-Zheng Kang, Yong-Bo Yang, Hao Fu, Meng-Ying Fan, Ke-Neng Chen

PDF Pages: 855-861 Full Text (3373) Open Access

Feasibility and efficacy of helical intensity-modulated radiotherapy for stage III non-small cell lung cancer in comparison with conventionally fractionated 3D-CRT

Jian He, Yan Huang, Yixing Chen, Shiming Shi, Luxi Ye, Yong Hu, Jianying Zhang, Zhaochong Zeng

PDF Pages: 862-871 Full Text (4032) Open Access

Younger women have a better prognosis among patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma after esophagectomy

Xiao-Dong Su, Xu Zhang, Hao-Jun Xie, Peng Lin, Lanjun Zhang, Tiehua Rong

PDF Pages: 872-879 Full Text (3440) Open Access

Effect of parecoxib combined with thoracic epidural analgesia on pain after thoracotomy

Xiao-Min Ling, Fang Fang, Xiao-Guang Zhang, Ming Ding, Qiu-A-Xue Liu, Jing Cang

PDF Pages: 880-887 Full Text (5224) Open Access

Surgical treatment of ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone syndrome with intra-thoracic tumor

Xiang Zhou, Junbiao Hang, Jiaming Che, Zhongyuan Chen, Weicheng Qiu, Jian Ren, Xiaoqing Yang, Jie Xiang, Hecheng Li

PDF Pages: 888-893 Full Text (4028) Open Access

Down-regulation of miR-452 is associated with poor prognosis in the non-small-cell lung cancer

Zhicheng He, Yang Xia, Bin Liu, Xiaotong Qi, Zhi Li, Jun Wang, Liang Chen, Yijiang Chen

PDF Pages: 894-900 Full Text (5966) Open Access

Prognostic stratification of thymic epithelial tumors based on both Masaoka-Koga stage and WHO classification systems

Geun Dong Lee, Hyeong Ryul Kim, Se Hoon Choi, Yong-Hee Kim, Dong Kwan Kim, Seung-Il Park

PDF Pages: 901-910 Full Text (4831) Open Access

Surgical treatment of cardiac tumors: a 5-year experience from a single cardiac center

Liang Yin, Dengke He, Hua Shen, Xinyu Ling, Wei Li, Qian Xue, Zhinong Wang

PDF Pages: 911-919 Full Text (9809) Open Access

Early cardiology assessment and intervention reduces mortality following myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS)

Alina Hua, Holly Pattenden, Maria Leung, Simon Davies, David A. George, Hilgardt Raubenheimer, Zakiyah Niwaz, Eric Lim

PDF Pages: 920-924 Full Text (4194) Open Access

Moderate hypothermic circulatory arrest in total arch repair for acute type A aortic dissection: clinical safety and efficacy

Ming Gong, Wei-Guo Ma, Xin-Liang Guan, Long-Fei Wang, Jia-Chen Li, Feng Lan, Li-Zhong Sun, Hong-Jia Zhang

PDF Pages: 925-933 Full Text (4877) Open Access

Comparisons of the clinical outcomes of thoracoscopic sympathetic surgery for palmar hyperhidrosis: R4 sympathicotomy versus R4 sympathetic clipping versus R3 sympathetic clipping

Seok Joo, Geun Dong Lee, Seokjin Haam, Sungsoo Lee

PDF Pages: 934-941 Full Text (4634) Open Access

Limiting the risk of cardiac toxicity with esophageal-sparing intensity modulated radiotherapy for locally advanced lung cancers

Katrina Woodford, Vanessa Panettieri, Jerem D Ruben, Sashendra Senthi

PDF Pages: 942-949 Full Text (3555) Open Access

Evaluation of pulmonary nodules in Asian population

Chee K. Phua, Wen Y. Sim, Kuan Sen Tee, Sennen J. W. Lew, Albert Y. H. Lim, Dessmon Y. H. Tai, Soon Keng Goh, Ai Ching Kor, Alan W. K. Ng, John Abisheganaden, Akash Verma

PDF Pages: 950-957 Full Text (4642) Open Access

Efficiency of neural respiratory drive for the assessment of bronchodilator responsiveness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an exploratory study

Yun Li, Yin-Huan Li, Shuo Li, Yu-Wen Luo, Rui Xiao, Yu-Xia Huang, Jin-Lun Huang, Yi-Tai Chen, Rong-Chang Zhi, Xin Chen

PDF Pages: 958-965 Full Text (3675) Open Access

Prevalence of metastasis in T1b esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a retrospective analysis of 258 Chinese patients

Xiaotong Qi, Mingna Li, Sheng Zhao, Jinhua Luo, Yongfeng Shao, Zhihong Zhang, Yijiang Chen

PDF Pages: 966-976 Full Text (4480) Open Access

Clinical results of sublobar resection versus lobectomy or more extensive resection for lung cancer patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Seok Joo, Dong Kwan Kim, Hee Je Sim, Geun Dong Lee, Su Kyung Hwang, Sehoon Choi, Hyeong Ryul Kim, Yong-Hee Kim, Seung-Il Park

PDF Pages: 977-984 Full Text (3818) Open Access

Predictors of indocyanine green visualization during fluorescence imaging for segmental plane formation in thoracoscopic anatomical segmentectomy

Shuhei Iizuka, Hiroaki Kuroda, Kenichi Yoshimura, Hitoshi Dejima, Katsutoshi Seto, Akira Naomi, Tetsuya Mizuno, Noriaki Sakakura, Yukinori Sakao

PDF Pages: 985-991 Full Text (3775) Open Access

Importance of fractional exhaled nitric oxide in diagnosis of bronchiectasis accompanied with bronchial asthma

Feng-Jia Chen, Huai Liao, Xin-Yan Huang, Can-Mao Xie

PDF Pages: 992-999 Full Text (4580) Open Access

Short-term rosuvastatin therapy prevents contrast-induced acute kidney injury in female patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease: a subgroup analysis of the TRACK-D study

Jing Li, Yi Li, Biao Xu, Guoliang Jia, Tao Guo, Dongmei Wang, Kai Xu, Jie Deng, Yaling Han

PDF Pages: 1000-1006 Full Text (4256) Open Access

A multi-center evaluation of a powered surgical stapler in video-assisted thoracoscopic lung resection procedures in China

Bin Qiu, Wanpu Yan, Keneng Chen, Xiangning Fu, Jian Hu, Shugeng Gao, Susan Knippenberg, Michael Schwiers, Edmund Kassis, Tengfei Yang

PDF Pages: 1007-1013 Full Text (3984) Open Access

Review Article

Preoperative physiotherapy in subjects with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis qualified for lung transplantation: implications on hospital length of stay and clinical outcomes

Massimiliano Polastri, Andrea Dell’Amore, Giulia Zagnoni, Stefano Nava

PDF Pages: E264-E268 Full Text (3767) Open Access

Will testosterone replacement therapy become a new treatment of chronic heart failure? A review based on 8 clinical trials

Weiwei Wang, Ting Jiang, Chunyu Li, Jun Chen, Kejiang Cao, Lian-Wen Qi, Ping Li, Wei Zhu, Baoli Zhu, Yan Chen

PDF Pages: E269-E277 Full Text (8603) Open Access

Commentary

What can a simple measure of heart rate during temperature management tell us on the physiology and prognosis of comatose cardiac arrest patients?

Jakob Hartvig Thomsen, Christian Hassager, Jesper Kjaergaard

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From Berlin to Kigali: the sobering journey of acute respiratory distress syndrome

Thomas Bein

PDF Pages: E282-E284 Full Text (3534) Open Access

Can the critical-care pain observation tool (CPOT) be used to assess pain in delirious ICU patients?

Saskia Rijkenberg, Peter H. J. van der Voort

PDF Pages: E285-E287 Full Text (6831) Open Access

Adjuvant corticosteroids for patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia: is it time?

Matthieu Revest, Gérald Egmann, Anthony Chapron, Stéphane Jouneau, Pierre Tattevin

PDF Pages: E288-E291 Full Text (3295) Open Access

Utility of the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale in evaluation of acute neurologic dysfunction in the intensive care unit

Vrinda Trivedi, Vivek N. Iyer

PDF Pages: E292-E294 Full Text (5421) Open Access

Serum lactate level as a useful predictor of clinical outcome after surgery: an unfulfilled potential?

Lorenzo Cobianchi, Andrea Peloso, Claudia Filisetti, Francesco Mojoli, Fabio Sciutti

PDF Pages: E295-E297 Full Text (7654) Open Access

Perspective

Where do we go from here? Reappraising the data on anticoagulation in pulmonary arterial hypertension

Meghan M. Cirulis, John J. Ryan

PDF Pages: E298-E304 Full Text (3222) Open Access

Serum creatinine level, a surrogate of muscle mass, predicts mortality in critically ill patients

Charat Thongprayoon, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Kianoush Kashani

PDF Pages: E305-E311 Full Text (19960) Open Access

Balanced control of both hyper and hypo-inflammatory phases as a new treatment paradigm in sepsis

Panagiotis Tsirigotis, Spiros Chondropoulos, Konstantinos Gkirkas, Josef Meletiadis, Ioanna Dimopoulou

PDF Pages: E312-E316 Full Text (4637) Open Access

Visualized Surgery

Precontrol of the pulmonary artery during thoracoscopic left upper lobectomy and systemic lymph node dissection

Lin Ma, Jiandong Mei, Chengwu Liu, Lunxu Liu

PDF Pages: E317-E318 Full Text (Video) (2641) Open Access

Case Report

Acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by Mycoplasma pneumonia without elevated pulmonary vascular permeability: a case report

Naoki Takahashi, Tsutomu Shinohara, Rie Oi, Muneyuki Ota, Shinichi Toriumi, Fumitaka Ogushi

PDF Pages: E319-E324 Full Text (3706) Open Access

Group and insidious tetraethyl lead poisoning occurred in industry of plastic weaving: a case report

Feng Zhang, Ying Bai, Baoli Zhu, Wenjing Zhu, Mingxian Ye

PDF Pages: E325-E329 Full Text (3119) Open Access

An uncommon presentation of Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease as mediastinal lymphadenopathy

Haruaki Hino, Takashi Nishimura, Jun-ichi Nitadori, Shigesaburo Miyakoshi, Atsuko Seki, Tomio Arai, Jun Nakajima

PDF Pages: E330-E333 Full Text (3691) Open Access

Coarctation of the aorta associated with agenesis of left common carotid artery and left subclavian artery

Yang Yang, Shiao Ding, Gaojun Xu, Hao Liu, Fangbao Ding

PDF Pages: E334-E336 Full Text (2727) Open Access

Management of subtotal tracheal section with esophageal perforation: a catastrophic complication of tracheostomy

Francesco Paolo Caronia, Alfonso Fiorelli, Ettore Arrigo, Mario Santini, Sergio Castorina

PDF Pages: E337-E339 Full Text (Video) (2534) Open Access

Postperfusion lung syndrome and related sequelae

Shi-Min Yuan

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A heterochronic genetic change from an EGFR mutation to an ALK rearrangement in a patient with lung adenocarcinoma: a case report

Takayuki Shiroyama, Motohiro Tamiya, Manabu Hayama, Takashi Nishihara, Takuji Nishida, Ayako Tanaka, Naoko Morishita, Hidekazu Suzuki, Norio Okamoto, Kunimitsu Kawahara, Tomonori Hirashima

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