Vol 9, No 6 (June 29, 2017): Journal of Thoracic Disease

Editorial

Effects of early administration of acetazolamide on the duration of mechanical ventilation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: still far from the truth?
Mabrouk Bahloul, Rania Ammar, Abir Bouattour, Samar Bellil, Hedi Chelly, Anis Chaari, Mounir Bouaziz
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Lung ultrasound: a new basic, easy, multifunction imaging diagnostic tool in children undergoing pediatric cardiac surgery
Massimiliano Cantinotti, Raffaele Giordano, Israel Valverde
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Does temperature management improve outcome in patients resuscitated from a non-shockable rhythm?
Jakob Hartvig Thomsen,, Christian Hassager, Jesper Kjaergaard
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Optical coherence tomography- vs. intravascular ultrasound-guided percutaneous coronary intervention
Lorenz Räber, Yasushi Ueki
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The hemodynamic impact of acute nasal continuous positive airway pressure treatment in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: is it safe?
Bo Xu, Reena Mehra
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Immunosuppression after lung transplantation: the search for the holy grail continues
Stefan Schwarz, Peter Jaksch, Walter Klepetko, Konrad Hoetzenecker
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What is extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
Federico Pappalardo, Andrea Montisci
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Hypercapnia during acute respiratory distress syndrome: the tree that hides the forest!
Xavier Repessé, Antoine Vieillard-Baron
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Another disappointing result, but how good is it?
Yasushi Goto
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Novel centrifugal pump for heart failure patients: initial success and future challenges
Christina Feldmann, Anamika Chatterjee, Jasmin S. Hanke, Guenes Dogan, Axel Haverich, Jan D. Schmitto
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Rapid adoption of transcatheter aortic valve replacement in intermediate- and high-risk patients to treat severe aortic valve stenosis
Sigitas Cesna, Ole De Backer, Lars Søndergaard
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Renin angiotensin system inhibitors: a panacea for heart disease?
Karim M. Al-Azizi, Kimberly A. Skelding
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No prophylaxis is non-inferior and cost-saving to prophylactic intravenous hydration in preventing contrast-induced nephropathy on requiring iodinated contrast material administration
Akira Sato, Tomoya Hoshi, Kazutaka Aonuma
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Diagnosing and treating contrast-induced acute kidney injury in 2017
Vikram Raje, George Feldman, Ion S. Jovin
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A novel therapeutic approach for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: suppressor of cytokine signaling-1 gene therapy
Chang-Han Chen, Shau-Hsuan Li
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Editorial on role of p53 in esophageal cancer from a meta-analysis of 16 studies by Fisher et al.
Francesca Steccanella, Antonio Costanzo, Fausto Petrelli
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Biomarkers in the era of individualized medicine
Chang Hyun Kang
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The esophagogastric junctional adenocarcinoma an increasing disease
Monica Pastina, Cecilia Menna, Claudio Andreetti, Mohsen Ibrahim
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SIRS, qSOFA, and organ failure for assessing sepsis at the emergency department
David Andaluz, Ricard Ferrer
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Shooting for the bull’s eye in septic shock
Kay Choong See, Tow Keang Lim
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Brain response to sleep-related attentional bias in patients with chronic insomnia
Xi-Jian Dai
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Guideline

South African guideline for the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults
Tom H. Boyles, Adrian Brink, Greg L. Calligaro, Cheryl Cohen, Keertan Dheda, Gary Maartens, Guy A. Richards, Richard van Zyl Smit, Clifford Smith, Sean Wasserman, Andrew C. Whitelaw, Charles Feldman, South African Thoracic Society, Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa
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Original Article

Treatment for sternoclavicular joint infections: a multi-institutional study
Allen Murga, Hannah Copeland, Rachel Hargrove, Jason M. Wallen, Salman Zaheer
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Evaluation of platelet lymphocyte ratio and 90-day mortality in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Praneel Kumar, Stephanie Law, Krishna B. Sriram
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Development of a novel ex vivo porcine laparoscopic Heller myotomy and Nissen fundoplication training model (Toronto lap-Nissen simulator)
Hideki Ujiie, Tatsuya Kato, Hsin-Pei Hu, Patrycja Bauer, Priya Patel, Hironobu Wada, Daiyoon Lee, Kosuke Fujino, Colin Schieman, Andrew Pierre, Thomas K. Waddell, Shaf Keshavjee, Gail E. Darling, Kazuhiro Yasufuku
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Decrease in performance status after lobectomy mean poor prognosis in elderly lung cancer patients
Yo Kawaguchi, Jun Hanaoka, Yasuhiko Oshio, Masayuki Hashimoto, Tomoyuki Igarashi, Yoko Kataoka, Ryosuke Kaku, Yuki Namura, Akira Akazawa
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The value of positive lymph nodes ratio combined with negative lymph node count in prediction of breast cancer survival
Jing Yang, Quanyi Long, Hongjiang Li, Qing Lv, Qiuwen Tan, Xiaoqin Yang
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Discordance of physician clinical judgment vs. pneumonia severity index (PSI) score to admit patients with low risk community-acquired pneumonia: a prospective multicenter study
Pedro J. Marcos, Marcos I. Restrepo, Francisco J. González-Barcala, Nilam J. Soni, Iria Vidal, Pilar Sanjuàn, Diego Llinares, Lucía Ferreira-Gonzalez, Carlos Rábade, Isabel Otero-González, Pedro Marcos, Héctor Verea-Hernando
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Socioeconomic impact of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma-COPD overlap syndrome
Jinhee Kim, Young Sam Kim, Kyungjoo Kim, Yeon-Mok Oh, Kwang Ha Yoo, Chin Kook Rhee, Jin Hwa Lee
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Impact of thoracic surgery on esophageal motor function—Evaluation by high resolution manometry
Anja Wäsche, Arne Kandulski, Peter Malfertheiner, Sandra Riedel, Patrick Zardo, Thomas Hachenberg, Jens Schreiber
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Analysis of the risk factors of postoperative cardiopulmonary complications and ability to predicate the risk in patients after lung cancer surgery
Yue Li, Yin-Lu Ma, Yong-Yin Gao, Dan-Dan Wang, Qing Chen
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Decreased Wnt4 expression inhibits thymoma development through downregulation of FoxN1
Yuan Chen, Xin Liu, Yimei Liu, Yuanguo Wang, Hai Wang, Chao Lu, Peng Zhang
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Effectiveness of perioperative pulmonary rehabilitation in thoracic surgery
Attila Vagvogyi, Zsolt Rozgonyi, Maria Kerti, Paul Vadasz, Janos Varga
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Clinical and pathological aspects of microscopic thymoma with myasthenia gravis and review of published reports
Mitsuro Fukuhara, Mitsunori Higuchi, Yuki Owada, Takuya Inoue, Yuzuru Watanabe, Takumi Yamaura, Satoshi Muto, Takeo Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Suzuki
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Does the usage of digital chest drainage systems reduce pleural inflammation and volume of pleural effusion following oncologic pulmonary resection?—A prospective randomized trial
Michèle De Waele, John Agzarian, Waël C. Hanna, Colin Schieman, Christian J. Finley, Joseph Macri, Laura Schneider, Terri Schnurr, Forough Farrokhyar, Katherine Radford, Parameswaran Nair, Yaron Shargall
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Feasibility of four-arm robotic lobectomy as solo surgery in patients with clinical stage I lung cancer
Seong Yong Park, Jee Won Suh, Kyoung Sik Narm, Chang Young Lee, Jin Gu Lee, Hyo Chae Paik, Kyoung Young Chung, Dae Joon Kim
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Segmentectomy versus lobectomy for stage I non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Benedetta Bedetti, Luca Bertolaccini, Raffaele Rocco, Joachim Schmidt, Piergiorgio Solli, Marco Scarci
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Assessment of thoracic vasculature in patients with central bronchogenic carcinoma by unenhanced magnetic resonance angiography: comparison between 2D free-breathing TrueFISP, 2D breath-hold TrueFISP and 3D respiratory-triggered SPACE
Lili Wang, Peng Lv, Shuohui Yang, Mengsu Zeng, Jiang Lin
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Surgical Technique

Three-dimensional printing guided precise surgery for right-sided aortic arch associated with Kommerell’s diverticulum
Nan Chen, Kai Zhu, Hongqiang Zhang, Xiaoning Sun, Chunsheng Wang
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Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy and systemic mediastinal lymph nodes dissection
Jia He, Dongjie Ma, Shanqing Li
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A segmental labeling technique for non-intubated thoracoscopic anatomical segmentectomy
Miao Zhang, Tao Wang, Heng Wang
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Combined analgesic treatment of epidural and paravertebral block after thoracic surgery
Yujiro Yokoyama, Takahiro Nakagomi, Daichi Shikata, Taichiro Goto
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Four arms robotic-assisted pulmonary resection—left lower lobectomy: how to do it
Alessandro Pardolesi, Luca Bertolaccini, Jury Brandolini, Piergiorgio Solli
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Review Article

Pediatric airway surgery
Konrad Hoetzenecker, Thomas Schweiger, Doris Maria Denk-Linnert, Walter Klepetko
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Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement in high risk patient groups
Daniel Fudulu, Harriet Lewis, Umberto Benedetto, Massimo Caputo, Gianni Angelini, Hunaid A. Vohra
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Short Communication

Bicuspid aortic root spared during ascending aorta surgery: an update of long-term results
Marco Russo, Guglielmo Saitto, Paolo Nardi, Fabio Bertoldo, Carlo Bassano, Antonio Scafuri, Antonio Pellegrino, Giovanni Ruvolo
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Review Article of Interventional Pulmonology Corner1

Whole lung lavage—technical details, challenges and management of complications
Ahmed Awab, Muhammad S. Khan, Houssein A. Youness
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Infections causing central airway obstruction: role of bronchoscopy in diagnosis and management
Sevak Keshishyan, Lawrence DeLorenzo, Kassem Hammoud, Arpine Avagyan, Hussein Assallum, Kassem Harris
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Statistic Corner2

A general introduction to adjustment for multiple comparisons
Shi-Yi Chen, Zhe Feng, Xiaolian Yi
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Types of biological variables
Shreemathi S. Mayya, Ashma D Monteiro, Sachit Ganapathy
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Basic statistics with Microsoft Excel: a review
Duilio Divisi, Gabriella Di Leonardo, Gino Zaccagna, Roberto Crisci
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How to describe univariate data
Stefania Canova, Diego Luigi Cortinovis, Federico Ambrogi
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Case Report

Durable complete response to nivolumab in a patient with HIV and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer
Brennan McCullar, Taylor Alloway, Michael Martin
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Disease flare after discontinuing gefitinib in a patient with lung adenocarcinoma and concomitant epithelial growth factor receptor mutation and anaplastic lymphoma kinase translocation
Eun Hye Park, Hwa Young Lee, Jin Woo Kim, Chang Dong Yeo
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Successful management of a giant dissecting aortic aneurysm in a patient with Behcet’s disease
Zhiqi Zhang, Kanhua Yin, Yi Lin, Changfa Guo, Yongxin Sun, Chunsheng Wang
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Complete spontaneous resolution of a giant bulla without rupture or infection: a case report and literature review
Won Ho Chang
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Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy and resection of a giant thymoma in a patient witness of Jehova
Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Ching Feng Wu, Mercedes de la Torre
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Successful treatment of acute respiratory failure in a patient with pulmonary Mycobacterium abscessus infection accompanied by organizing pneumonia
Goohyeon Hong, Doh Hyung Kim, Youn Seup Kim
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Robotic trans-subxiphoid extended thymectomy in a patient with thymoma-associated pemphigus
Yu Zheng, Yi-Zhou Cai, Han-Lu Zhang, Zi-Hao Wang, Yun Wang
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Meet the Professor

Prof. Malcolm M. DeCamp: declining use of surgical therapy for early stage non-small cell lung cancer in the United States
Jianfei Shen
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Prof. Abbas E. Abbas: a robotic thoracic practice can provide both clinical and financial benefits for an academic institution
Jianfei Shen
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Prof. Benny Weksler: adjuvant chemotherapy improves survival
Jianfei Shen
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Dr. Sebastien Gilbert: more evidence is need for the promotion of uniportal VATS in North America
Maxine Feng
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Prof. Konrad Hoetzenecker: extracorporeal life support, a bridge to lung transplantation
Skylar Gao
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Letter to the Editor

Is near-time prevention for sudden cardiac arrest feasible? The e-MUST score
Nicole Karam, Sophie Bataille, Eloi Marijon, Muriel Tafflet, Frederic Lapostolle, Christian Spaulding, Xavier Jouven, Yves Lambert, for the e-MUST study investigators
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A closer look at the safety and effectiveness of modern PORT in stage III-N2 non-small cell lung cancer
Charlotte Billiet, Dirk De Ruysscher
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Upstaging, not just a non-small matter
Daniel C. Thomas, Anthony W. Kim
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Disclosure:

1. The series “Interventional Pulmonology Corner” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Kassem Harris served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.

2. The series “Statistics Corner” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Luca Bertolaccini served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.