Vol 8, No 12 (December 31, 2016): Journal of Thoracic Disease

Grand Rounds1

Preface to Grand Rounds Column
Guangqiao Zeng, on behalf of Journal of Thoracic Disease
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A 43-year-old man with cough, expectoration and recurrent wheezing
Hongyu Wang, Ruchong Chen, Jiaxing Xie, Qingling Zhang, Yu Deng, Qingsi Zeng, Zheng Zhu, Ming Ding, Zhengdao Lai, Martin Kolb, Paul O’Byrne, Rongchang Chen, Nanshan Zhong
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Editorial

Drug-eluting stent restenosis treatment: an “old” stent, a “new” balloon or a “newer” scaffold?
Dario Buccheri, Giuliana Cimino
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New developments towards the management of severe cases of tracheobronchomalacia
David C. van der Zee
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Personalized interventions for tracheobronchomalacia
Tayfun Caliskan, Sarah Sungurlu, Septimiu Murgu
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Tracheobronchomalacia treatment: how far have we come?
Daniel López-Padilla, Ricardo García-Luján, Luis Puente Maestu, Eduardo de Miguel Poch
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High flow nasal cannula in extubated patients: is it advantageous over conventional oxygen therapy?
Jian-Jun Zhang, Bing Dai
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Original Article

Does videomediastinoscopy with frozen sections improve mediastinal staging during video-assisted thoracic surgery pulmonary resections?
Alessandro Gonfiotti, Stefano Bongiolatti, Domenico Viggiano, Sara Borgianni, Roberto Borrelli, Giorgia Tancredi, Massimo O. Jaus, Leonardo Politi, Camilla E. Comin, Luca Voltolini
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Fibred confocal fluorescence microscopy in the diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases
Peng Meng, Gan Liang Tan, Su Ying Low, Angela Takan, Yuen Li Ng, Devanand Anantham
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The application of thromboelastogram in detection of indexes of antiplatelet therapy for coronary heart disease
Shu-Wu Zhao, Yu-Ping Wang, Lin-Dong Xu, Wei Gang
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Segmental bronchi collapsibility: computed tomography-based quantification in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and correlation with emphysema phenotype, corresponding lung volume changes and clinical parameters
Christopher Kloth, Wolfgang Maximilian Thaiss, Hendrik Ditt, Jürgen Hetzel, Eva Schülen, Konstantin Nikolaou, Marius Horger
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Localization of in-stent neoatherosclerosis in relation to curvatures and bifurcations after stenting
Yongpeng Zou, Xingtao Huang, Linxing Feng, Jingbo Hou, Lei Xing, Bo Yu
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Video-assisted versus conventional thoracotomy pneumonectomy: a comparison of perioperative outcomes and short-term measures of convalescence
Yuanqi Liu, Yang Gao, Huajun Zhang, Yuanda Cheng, Ruimin Chang, Weixing Zhang, Chunfang Zhang
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Safety and feasibility of uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Junqiang Fan, Jie Yao, Qi Wang, Zhibo Chang
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Calcification of arteries supplying the gastric tube increases the risk of anastomotic leakage after esophagectomy with cervical anastomosis
Liang Zhao, Gefei Zhao, Jiagen Li, Bin Qu, Susheng Shi, Xiaoli Feng, Hao Feng, Jun Jiang, Qi Xue, Jie He
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Management of acute postoperative pain with continuous intercostal nerve block after single port video-assisted thoracoscopic anatomic resection
Ming-Ju Hsieh, Kuo-Cheng Wang, Hung-Pin Liu, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Ching-Yang Wu, Yun-Hen Liu, Yi-Cheng Wu, Yin-Kai Chao, Ching-Feng Wu
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Is early postoperative administration of pregabalin beneficial for patients with lung cancer?—randomized control trial
Takuro Miyazaki, Tetsuya Sakai, Shuntaro Sato, Naoya Yamasaki, Tomoshi Tsuchiya, Keitaro Matsumoto, Ryotaro Kamohara, Go Hatachi, Ryoichiro Doi, Takeshi Nagayasu
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MicroRNAs are novel non-invasive diagnostic biomarkers for pulmonary embolism: a meta-analysis
Han-Yu Deng, Gang Li, Jun Luo, Zhi-Qiang Wang, Xiao-Yan Yang, Yi-Dan Lin, Lun-Xu Liu
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The impact of operative approaches on outcomes of middle and lower third esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Ju-Wei Mu, Shu-Geng Gao, Qi Xue, You-Sheng Mao, Da-Li Wang, Jun Zhao, Yu-Shun Gao, Jin-Feng Huang, Jie He
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Body mass index—percent forced vital capacity—respiratory hospitalization: new staging for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients
Tomoo Kishaba, Hiroaki Nagano, Yuichiro Nei, Shin Yamashiro
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Survival after subsequent non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and non-small cell lung cancer in patients with malignant thymoma
Jacob S. Parzen, James E. Bates, Michael T. Milano, Sughosh Dhakal
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Effect of gender on perioperative outcomes after robotic-assisted pulmonary lobectomy
Jessica R. Glover, Frank O. Velez-Cubian, Wei Wei Zhang, Kavian Toosi, Tawee Tanvetyanon, Emily P. Ng, Carla C. Moodie, Joseph R. Garrett, Jacques P. Fontaine, Eric M. Toloza
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:3614-3624
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Prognostic value of right upper mediastinal lymphadenectomy in Sweet procedure for esophageal cancer
Zhi-Qiang Wang, Han-Yu Deng, Yang Hu, Yong Yuan, Wen-Ping Wang, Yun-Cang Wang, Long-Qi Chen
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Parma tracheostomy technique: a hybrid approach to tracheostomy between classical surgical and percutaneous tracheostomies
Alberto Molardi, Filippo Benassi, Tullio Manca, Andrea Ramelli, Antonella Vezzani, Francesco Nicolini, Giorgio Romano, Matteo Ricci, Davide Carino, Maria Vincenza Di Chicco, Tiziano Gherli
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A bench evaluation of fraction of oxygen in air delivery and tidal volume accuracy in home care ventilators available for hospital use
Loredana Baboi, Fabien Subtil, Claude Guérin
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Glucose-insulin-potassium correlates with hemodynamic improvement in patients with septic myocardial dysfunction
Won-Young Kim, Moon Seong Baek, Young Shin Kim, Jarim Seo, Jin Won Huh, Chae-Man Lim, Younsuck Koh, Sang-Bum Hong
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Prognostic significance of red cell distribution width in elderly patients undergoing resection for non-small cell lung cancer
Junji Ichinose, Tomohiro Murakawa, Mitsuaki Kawashima, Kazuhiro Nagayama, Jun-ichi Nitadori, Masaki Anraku, Jun Nakajima
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Correlation of matrix metalloproteinase-2 and -9 expression with recurrences in primary spontaneous pneumothorax patients
Wen-Chin Chiu, Yi-Chen Lee, Yu-Han Su, Chee-Yin Chai, Stephen Chu-Sung Hu, Shyng-Shiou F. Yuan, Shah-Hwa Chou
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Association between postoperative bulla neogenesis at the staple line and resected lung weight for primary spontaneous pneumothorax: a retrospective study using the inverse-probability of treatment weighted method in patients grouped according to age
Kenji Tsuboshima, Machiko Nagata, Teppei Wakahara, Yasumi Matoba, Yoshimasa Maniwa
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LMO4 is a prognostic marker involved in cell migration and invasion in non-small-cell lung cancer
Wenjun Wang, Sipei Wu, Minzhang Guo, Jianxing He
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The efficacy of thoracoscopic fissureless lobectomy in patients with dense fissures
Hitoshi Igai, Mitsuhiro Kamiyoshihara, Ryohei Yoshikawa, Fumi Osawa, Natsuko Kawatani, Takashi Ibe, Kimihiro Shimizu
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Utility of thrombophilia testing in patients with venous thrombo-embolism
Masataka Kudo, Huang L. Lee, Ian A. Yang, Philip J. Masel
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Minimalist video-assisted thoracic surgery biopsy of mediastinal tumors
Federico Tacconi, Paola Rogliani, Benedetto Cristino, Francesco Gilardi, Leonardo Palombi, Eugenio Pompeo, for the Awake Thoracic Surgery Research
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Expert Consensus

Recommendations for the management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in South Africa: a position statement of the South African Thoracic Society
Coenraad F. N. Koegelenberg, Gillian M. Ainslie, Keertan Dheda, Brian W. Allwood, Michelle L. Wong, Umesh G. Lalloo, Mohamed S. Abdool-Gaffar, Hoosain Khalfey, Elvis M. Irusen
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Evidenced-Based Clinical Problem Solving Article2

How should this patient with repeated aspiration pneumonia be managed and treated?—a proposal of the Percutaneous ENdoscopIc Gastrostomy and Tracheostomy (PENlIGhT) procedure
Zhongheng Zhang, Jason Akulian, Yucai Hong, Ning Liu, Yuhao Chen, on behalf of AME Critical Care Collaborative Group
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Surgical Technique

Optimizing the exposure in minimally invasive mitral surgery: a new left atrial retractor system
Ernesto Greco, David Rose, Francesco Irace, Giacomo Frati
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Surgical technique: establishing a pre-clinical large animal model to test aortic valve leaflet substitute
Martin Schweiger, Walter Knirsch, Niko Cesarovic, Bernard Krüger, Martin Schmiady, Thomas Frauenfelder, Laura Fres, Hitendu Dav, Simon Philipp Hoerstrup, Michael Hübler
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Short Communication

Effect of changing from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey III spirometry reference range to that of the Global Lung Initiative 2012 at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service
Laura A. K. Embling, Debbie Zagami, Krishna Bajee Sriram, Robert J. Gordon, Pathmanathan Sivakumaran
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Research Highlights

Current situation of asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) in Chinese patients older than 40 years with airflow limitation: rationale and design for a multicenter, cross-sectional trial (study protocol)
Jian Kang, Wanzhen Yao, Baiqiang Cai, Ping Chen, Xia Ling, Hongyan Shang
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:3744-3751
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Review Article

Ischemic mitral valve prolapse
Francesco Nappi, Spadaccio Cristiano, Antonio Nenna, Massimo Chello
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:3752-3761
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Veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: cannulation techniques
Carl Banfi, Matteo Pozzi, Nils Siegenthaler, Marie-Eve Brunner, Didier Tassaux, JeanFrancois Obadia, Karim Bendjelid, Raphaël Giraud
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:3762-3773
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Duration of antibiotic therapy in the intensive care unit
Gabor Zilahi, Mary McMahon, Pedro Povoa, Ignacio Martin-Loeches
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:3774-3780
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Tracheal and bronchial tumors
Patricio Varela, Luca Pio, Elisa Brandigi, Irene Paraboschi, Nazhia Khen-Dunlop, Erik Hervieux, Cecile Muller, Girolamo Mattioli, Sabine Sarnacki, Michele Torre
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
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Review of tracheobronchial foreign body aspiration in the South African paediatric age group
Tamer Ali Sultan, Arjan Bastiaan van As
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Endobronchial tuberculosis—a review
Talha Shahzad, Muhammad Irfan
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The anaesthetic consideration of tracheobronchial foreign body aspiration in children
Pinar Kendigelen
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Recent advances in diagnostic bronchoscopy
Philip G. Ong, Labib G. Debiane, Roberto F. Casal
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Tracheobronchial tuberculosis
Vikas Pathak, Ray W. Shepherd, Samira Shojaee
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The role of bronchoscopy in the diagnosis of airway disease
Tyler J. Paradis, Jennifer Dixon, Brandon H. Tieu
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Case Report

Unusual cause of massive hemothorax: spontaneous rupture of nonfunctioning mediastinal paraganglioma
Feng Lin, Chengwu Liu, Lin Ma, Qiang Pu, Yunke Zhu, Zhilan Xiao, Chenglin Guo, Xiaolong Zhang, Chuan Li, Lunxu Liu
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Thoracoscopic esophageal repair with barbed suture material in a case of Boerhaave’s syndrome
Toru Nakano, Chiaki Sato, Tadashi Sakurai, Kurodo Kamiya, Takashi Kamei, Noriaki Ohuchi
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Peripheral venous catheter fracture with embolism into the pulmonary artery
Andrea Dell’Amore, Chady Ammari, Alessio Campisi, Rocco D’Andrea
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Duct ectasia in an accessory breast successfully treated with a flap technique: a case report
Xiaohui Zhang, Stephen R. Grobmyer, Yujing Wang, Qiang Sun, Hanyuan Huang
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Pemetrexed-induced radiation recall dermatitis in a patient with lung adenocarcinoma: case report and literature review
Jin Ge, Vivek Verma, Andrew Hollander, Corey Langer, Charles B. Simone II
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Unusual clotted haemothorax caused by spontaneous intramural haematoma of the oesophagus: a case report
Chenglin Guo, Jiandong Mei, Pujun Guan, Feng Lin, Qiang Pu, Lunxu Liu
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One-stage hybrid surgery for acute Stanford type A aortic dissection with David operation, aortic arch debranching, and endovascular graft: a case report
Lulu Liu, Chaoyi Qin, Jianglong Hou, Da Zhu, Bengui Zhang, Ma Hao, Guo Yingqiang
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Non-intubated subxiphoid uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy using glasses-free 3D vision
Long Jiang, Jun Liu, Wenlong Shao, Jingpei Li, Jianxing He
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Editorial

Systematic long-term follow-up programs in patients with simple congenital heart diseases: how long is long?
Marco Zuin, Gianluca Rigatelli
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Acute respiratory distress syndrome and mechanical ventilation: ups and downs of an ongoing relationship trap
Christoph Haberthür, Manfred D. Seeberger
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Put pressure worldwide on blood pressure control
Simona Costanzo, Giovanni de Gaetano, Licia Iacoviello
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Delirium prevention: another piece of the puzzle
Beth M. T. Teegarden, Donald S. Prough
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The current evidence on diagnosis and treatment of acute aortic syndrome
Shintaro Minegishi, Hiroki Watanabe, Nobuyuki Horita, Yuji Shibata, Takeshi Kaneko, Tomoaki Ishigami
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Nasal high flow oxygen therapy after extubation: the road is open but don’t drive too fast!
Antoine Rabbat, Kim Blanc, Aurélie Lefebvre, Christine Lorut
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Does the number of incisions in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery matter?
Henrik Jessen Hansen, Gonzalo Varela, René Horsleben Petersen, William S. Walker
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Shorter antibiotic courses in community-acquired pneumonia—ready for prime time
Erica J. Shaddock, Charles Feldman
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Quality of life in adults living with congenital heart disease: beyond morbidity and mortality
Amanda L. Hunter, Lorna Swan
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Continuous infusion of beta-lactams: a blissful option for the intensive care unit
Andrew F. Shorr, Marya D. Zilberberg
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Coronary surgery in elderly: it is never too late
Pierpaolo Chivasso, Umberto Benedetto
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Continuous positive airway pressure therapy and cardiovascular outcomes in obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: where are we now?
Walter T. McNicholas
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The BREATHE-appeal: harmonize interaction between patient and ventilator!
Thomas Bein, Steffen Weber-Carstens
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The timing of elective ascending aortic aneurysm replacement for non-syndromic patients and the implication of bicuspid aortic valve-related aortopathy
Ali Khoynezhad
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Who is at risk of dissection or rupture in moderately dilated ascending aorta?
Pyung Chun Oh, Woong Chol Kang
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Evaluation of symptomatic patients without airflow obstruction: back to the future
Jose Luis Lopez-Campos, Bernardino Alcazar
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Detection of patient-ventilator asynchrony should be improved: and then what?
Hermann Wrigge, Felix Girrbach, Gunther Hempel
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Transapical beating-heart chordae implantation in mitral regurgitation: a new horizon for repairing mitral valve prolapse
Patrizio Lancellotti, Marc Radermecker, Rodolphe Durieux, Thomas Modine, Cécile Oury, Khalil Fattouch
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Antifungal use in intensive care units: another uncertainty that highlights the need for precision medicine
Rima Moghnieh, Zeina A. Kanafani, Souha S. Kanj
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Optimizing sedation in critically ill patients: by technology or change of culture?
Thomas Stroem, Palle Toft
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Postextubation management of patients at high risk for reintubation
Kenneth Nugent
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Towards engineering integrated cardiac organoids: beating recorded
Yu Shrike Zhang, Cunjiang Yu
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Listen to patient’s complaints more than ECHO
Ho Jin Kim, Joon Bum Kim
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Do isolated calf deep vein thrombosis need anticoagulant treatment?
Gualtiero Palareti
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Locoregional recurrence after VATS surgery for NSCLC
Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz, Gilbert Massard
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Von Willebrand factor multimers during transcatheter aortic valve replacement—an additional clue for detecting post-procedural aortic regurgitation?
Andras Peter Durko, Arie Pieter Kappetein
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Growing importance of valvular heart disease in the elderly
Yan Chen, Kai-Hang Yiu
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One, two, three or four ports… does it matter? Priorities in lung cancer surgery
Herbert Decaluwé
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Adjuvant chemotherapy for a T3 additional tumor nodule in the same lobe: ready for prime time?
M. Jawad Latif, David R. Jones
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Minimally invasive thymectomy for thymoma: does surgical approach matter or is it a question of stage?
Andrew J. Kaufman, Raja M. Flores
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Prevention of organ dysfunction in septic shock: still looking for an effective treatment
Giovanni Landoni, Alessandro Belletti, Alessandro Putzu, Alberto Zangrillo
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What is the role of empirical treatment for suspected invasive candidiasis in non-neutropenic non transplanted patients in the intensive care unit?—Empiricus strikes back!
Cédric Bretonnière, Karim Lakhal, Thierry Lepoivre, David Boutoille, Florent Morio
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Perspective

An engineering perspective on 3D printed personalized scaffolds for tracheal suspension technique
Jia An, Chee Kai Chua
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Five years of keeping a watch on the left atrial appendage—how has the WATCHMAN fared?
Mohammad-Ali Jazayeri, Venkat Vuddanda, Valay Parikh, Madhav Lavu, Donita Atkins, Y. Madhu Reddy, Jayant Nath, Dhanunjaya R. Lakkireddy
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Clinical implications of genetic heterogeneity in multifocal pulmonary adenocarcinomas
Tawee Tanvetyanon, Theresa A. Boyle
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Commentary

Comments: totally endoscopic (VATS) first rib resection for thoracic outlet syndrome
Bo Povlsen
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Subxiphoid video-assisted major lung resections: the skeptic’s speech
Alberto Terzi, Andrea Viti
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Surgery for primary spontaneous pneumothorax
Christophoros N. Foroulis
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Scientific prove of better quality of life and postoperative pain by minimal invasive thoracic surgery
Aris Koryllos, Erich Stoelben
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A decade of robotics in lung cancer surgery
Brian E. Louie
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Marfan syndrome is the main independent predictor of recurrent aortic dissection in patients enrolled in the International Registry of Aortic Dissection (IRAD)
Florian S. Schoenhoff, Thierry P. Carrel
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Keap1/Nrf2 impairing revised: are we missing the single nucleotide polymorphisms?
Lucia Anna Muscarella, Vito Michele Fazio
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Clinical value of nodal micrometastases in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: time for reconsideration?
Angelo Carretta
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Dexmedetomidine for prevention of delirium in elderly patients after non-cardiac surgery
Elliott A. Karren, Adam B. King, Christopher G. Hughes
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Lung ultrasound in acute respiratory distress syndrome and beyond
Cameron Baston, T. Eoin West
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Updated practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of aspergillosis: challenges and opportunities
Michail Alevizakos, Dimitrios Farmakiotis, Eleftherios Mylonakis
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Updated guidelines for the diagnosis and management of aspergillosis
Elizabeth Ann Misch, Nasia Safdar
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Correspondence

Flap choice for closure of open window thoracotomy: a response to the author of the article entitled “the omentum flap for empyema treatment: indications and disadvantages”
Shuichi Shinohara, Yasuhiro Chikaishi, Taiji Kuwata, Masaru Takenaka, Soichi Oka, Ayako Hirai, Naoko Imanishi, Koji Kuroda, Fumihiro Tanaka
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High density lipoprotein cholesterol and risk of death
Ziyad Al-Aly
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Randomized trial of thymectomy in myasthenia gravis
Gil I. Wolfe, Henry J. Kaminski, Joshua R. Sonnett, Inmaculada B. Aban, Hui-Chien Kuo, Gary R. Cutter
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Focusing on spontaneous coronary artery dissection: actuality and future perspectives
Dario Buccheri, Giulia Zambelli
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A complicated clinical problem: surgical treatment decisions for patients with early-stage lung cancer
Jianfei Shen, Yang Liu, Chengyang Dai, Baofu Chen, Chang Chen, Gaetano Rocco, Alessandro Brunelli, Chia-Chuan Liu, Rene Horsleben Petersen, Jianxing He, Written on behalf of the AME Thoracic Surgery Collaborative Group
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Disclosure:

1. The series “Grand Rounds” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Guangqiao Zeng served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.

2. The series “Evidenced-Based Clinical Problem Solving Article” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Zhongheng Zhang served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.