Vol 10, No 1 (January 31, 2018) - Journal of Thoracic Disease

Eliano P. Navarese, Bernhard Wernly, Michael Lichtenauer, Martino Pepe, Wojciech Wanha, Giuseppe Ferrante, Lara Frediani, Verena Veulemans, Tobias Zeus, Ralf Westenfeld, Christian Jung, Paul A. Gurbel

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Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer

Vivek Verma, Joe Y. Chang

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Square peg, round hole? Programmed death-1 inhibitors in epidermal growth factor receptor-mutant non-small cell lung cancer

Justin F. Gainor

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Heart-breaking aspirin interruption

Michel Zeitouni, Gilles Montalescot

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Why did VALIDATE-SWEDEHEART not validate the results of HORIZONS?

Uwe Zeymer

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Lobar or sublobar resection for stage I lung cancer: that is (still) the question!

Alfonso Fiorelli, Domenico Loizzi, Mario Santini

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Feeding route or learning route for nutrition in critically ill

Peter J. M. Weijs

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Obstructive sleep apnea and chronic kidney disease: open questions on a potential public health problem

Oreste Marrone, Maria R. Bonsignore

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Targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest: the longer, the better?

Wulfran Bougouin, Jean-Baptiste Lascarrou, Florence Dumas, Alain Cariou

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Personalized surgery for the management of pulmonary metastasis

Jean Yannis Perentes, Matthieu Zellweger, Michel Gonzalez

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Higher vs. lower PEEP in ARDS: just one part of the whole

Silvia Coppola, Sara Froio, Davide Chiumello

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Expanding role for radiotherapy in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer in the era of targeted therapy and immuno-oncology

Elaine Luterstein, Percy Lee

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The quest for immunotherapy in atherosclerosis: CANTOS study, interleukin-1β and vascular inflammation

Valmore Bermúdez, Joselyn Rojas-Quintero, Manuel Velasco

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Does VALIDATE-SWEDEHEART invalidate the use of bivalirudin in myocardial infarction?

Caroline Ong, Sripal Bangalore

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Cardiovascular events after discontinuation of low-dose aspirin

Manan Pareek, Steen D. Kristensen, Erik L. Grove

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The significance of pathological extracapsular vs. intracapsular lymph node involvement in patients with resectable esophageal cancer after neoadju-vant therapy

Puja Gaur Khaitan, Thomas J. Watson

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New individualized strategy instructs cryoballoon energy ablation

Wei-Dong Lin, Xian-Hong Fang, Yu-Mei Xue, Hong-Tao Liao

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Is there still a role for alveolar recruitment maneuvers in acute respiratory distress syndrome?

Richard H. Kallet, Michael S. Lipnick

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Lung protection in patients undergoing pulmonary lobectomy: a new perspective for remote ischemic conditioning in surgery?

Fabrice Prunier, Delphine Mirebeau-Prunier

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A perspective on the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Composite Score for evaluating esophagectomy for esophageal cancer

Shuyin Liang, James D. Luketich, Inderpal S. Sarkaria

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Remote ischaemic preconditioning of the lung: from bench to bedside—are we there yet?

Nina C. Weber, Coert J. Zuurbier, Markus W. Hollmann

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The enigma of the weekend effect

Anoop Mathew, Saad Ahmed Fyyaz, Paul Richard Carter, Rahul Potluri

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J-ALEX trial will crown alectinib as the standard choice for anaplastic lymphoma kinase positive untreated non-small cell lung cancer patients?

Cesare Gridelli, Francesca Casaluce, Assunta Sgambato, Giovanni Palazzolo, Paolo Maione

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Examining the paradox of high high-density lipoprotein and elevated cardiovascular risk

Kavisha Singh, Anand Rohatgi

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Perspectives on oligometastasis: challenges and opportunities

Jana Heitmann, Matthias Guckenberger

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Ridinilazole—a novel antibiotic for treatment of Clostridium difficile infection

Niels Steinebrunner, Wolfgang Stremmel, Karl H. Weiss

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Editorial on “Growth patterns of pulmonary metastases: should we adjust resection techniques to primary histology and size?”

Stefano M. M. Basso, Sandro C. Sulfaro, Paolo Ubial

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The role of loop gain in predicting upper airway surgical outcomes—what do we know?

Raichel Alex, Gino Panza, Jason H. Mateika

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Breaking the dose ceiling: proton therapy for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer

J. Isabelle Choi, Charles B. Simone II

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The 25th birthday and premature death of the open lung approach?—from science, through art, towards precision medicine

Thomas Bein, Marcus J. Schultz

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Ablative therapy in oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer—an editorial on recent evidence

Mark Niglas, Patrick Cheung

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Malapposed, uncovered, underexpanded—intravascular imaging lessons on coronary stent thrombosis

Nader Mankerious, Jonathon Micha, Sebastian Kufner

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Non-intubated uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for carinal sleeve resection—is surgical process almost completed?

Dominik Herrmann, Jan Volmerig, Erich Hecker

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Original Article

Identification of the key transcription factors in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Yuefeng Zhang, Yanzhao Xu, Zhenhua Li, Yonggang Zhu, Shiwang Wen, Mingbo Wang, Huilai Lv, Fan Zhang, Ziqiang Tian

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Validation of the T descriptor in the new 8th TNM classification for non-small cell lung cancer

Hee Suk Jung, Jin Gu Lee, Chang Young Lee, Dae Joon Kim, Kyung Young Chung

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Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid microbiota dysbiosis in infants with protracted bacterial bronchitis

Yanmin Bao, Yinhu Li, Chuangzhao Qiu, Wenjian Wang, Zhenyu Yang, Lu Huang, Xin Feng, Yanhong Liu, Jing Li, Qian Zhou, Heping Wang, Dongfang Li, Hongmei Wang, Wenkui Dai, Yuejie Zheng

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Evaluation of the 95% limits of agreement of the volumes of 5-year clinically stable solid nodules for the development of a follow-up system for indeterminate solid nodules in CT lung cancer screening

Ryutaro Kakinuma, Yukio Muramatsu, Junta Yamamichi, Shiho Gomi, Estanislao Oubel, Noriyuki Moriyama

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Correlation of bispectral index and Richmond agitation sedation scale for evaluating sedation depth: a retrospective study

Junbo Zheng, Yang Gao, Xiaoyu Xu, Kai Kang, Haitao Liu, Hongliang Wang, Kaijiang Yu

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Three-dimensional computed tomography reconstruction for operative planning in robotic segmentectomy: a pilot study

Julien Le Moal, Christophe Peillon, Jean-Nicolas Dacher, Jean-Marc Baste

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PTEN gene silencing contributes to airway remodeling and induces airway smooth muscle cell proliferation in mice with allergic asthma

Xin Wen, Jing Yan, Xin-Rui Han, Gui-Hong Zheng, Ran Tang, Li-Fang Liu, Dong-Mei Wu, Jun Lu, Yuan-Lin Zheng

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In vitro effects of N-acetylcysteine alone and combined with tigecycline on planktonic cells and biofilms of Acinetobacter baumannii

Jinlun Feng, Baomo Liu, Junwen Xu, Qinqin Wang, Lixia Huang, Weijun Ou, Jincui Gu, Jian Wu, Shaoli Li, Chao Zhuo, Yanbin Zhou

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A pooled analysis of advanced nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer patients with stable treated brain metastases in two phase II trials receiving bevacizumab and pemetrexed as second-line therapy

Matthew A. Gubens, Jody C. Chuang, Wallace Akerley, Corey J. Langer, Christelle Clément- Duchêne, Melanie San Pedro-Salcedo, A. Dimitrios Colevas, Konstantin Dragnev, Mark A. Socinski, Heather A. Wakelee

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Long-term quality of life after endovac-therapy in anastomotic leakages after esophagectomy

Nils Heits, Alexander Bernsmeier, Benedikt Reichert, Charlotte Hauser, Alexander Hendricks, Dana Seifert, Florian Richter, Clemens Schafmayer, Mark Ellrichmann, Bodo Schniewind, Jochen Hampe, Thomas Becker, Jan-Hendrik Egberts

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Manual aspiration in the biopsy-side down position to deal with delayed pneumothorax after lung biopsy

Li-Chuan Zeng, Han-Feng Yang, Xiao-Xue Xu, Ming-Guo Xie, Hua-Qiang Liao, Yu-Dong Zhang, Qu Wang, Yong Du

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Clarithromycin mitigates radiation pneumonitis in patients with lung cancer treated with stereotactic body radiotherapy

Atsuya Takeda, Yuichiro Tsurugai, Naoko Sanuki, Tatsuji Enomoto, Masaharu Shinkai, Tomikazu Mizuno, Yousuke Aoki, Yohei Oku, Takeshi Akiba, Yu Hara, Etsuo Kunieda

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Pulmonary embolism concurrent with lung cancer and central emboli predict mortality in patients with lung cancer and pulmonary embolism

Seung-Ick Cha, Kyung-Min Shin, Jae-Kwang Lim, Seung-Soo Yoo, Shin-Yup Lee, Jaehee Lee, Chang-Ho Kim, Jae-Yong Park, Won-Kee Lee, Chi-Young Jung

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Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a prognostic marker in acute respiratory distress syndrome patients: a retrospective study

Ying Wang, Mohan Ju, Cuicui Chen, Dong Yang, Dongni Hou, Xinjun Tang, Xiaodan Zhu, Donghui Zhang, Lilin Wang, Shimeng Ji, Jinjun Jiang, Yuanlin Song

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Assessment of the mitral valve coaptation zone with 2D and 3D transesophageal echocardiography before and after mitral valve repair

Yong Guo, Yihua He, Ye Zhang, Shuping Ge, Lin Sun, Wenxu Liu, Jiancheng Han, Xiaoyan Gu

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Video-assisted thoracic surgery for thymoma: long-term follow-up results and prognostic factors—single-center experience of 150 cases

Jian-Feng Li, Ben-Gang Hui, Xiao Li, Rong-Xin Xiao, Guan-Chao Jiang, Jun Liu, Jun Wang

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Positive correlation between postoperative tumor recur-rence and changes in circulating tumor cell counts in pul-monary venous blood (pvCTC) during surgical manipulation in non-small cell lung cancer

Masaki Hashimoto, Fumihiro Tanaka, Kazue Yoneda, Teruhisa Takuwa, Seiji Matsumoto, Yoshitomo Okumura, Nobuyuki Kondo, Tohru Tsujimura, Takashi Nakano, Seiki Hasegawa

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Clinical applications of virtual navigation bronchial intervention

Naohiro Kajiwara, Sachio Maehara, Junichi Maeda, Masaru Hagiwara, Tetsuya Okano, Masatoshi Kakihana, Tatsuo Ohira, Norihiko Kawate, Norihiko Ikeda

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Pulmonary metastasectomy in sarcoma—experiences with laser- assisted resection

Severin Schmid, Uyen-Thao Le, Christoph Zeisel, Benedikt Haager, Bernward Passlick

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Independent long-term result of robotic thymectomy for myasthenia gravis, a single center experience

Dong-Tao Yin, Ling Huang, Bing Han, Xiu Chen, Shi-Min Yin, Wen Zhou, Jian Chu, Tao Liang, Tian-Yang Yun, Yang Liu

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National adoption of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy: the Italian VATS register evaluation

Duilio Divisi, Luca Bertolaccini, Mirko Barone, Dario Amore, Desideria Argnani, Gino Zaccagna, Piergiorgio Solli, Gaetano Di Rienzo, Carlo Curcio, Roberto Crisci, Italian VATS Group

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High blood neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio associated with poor outcomes in miliary tuberculosis

Yeji Han, Soo Jung Kim, Su Hwan Lee, Yun Su Sim, Yon Ju Ryu, Jung Hyun Chang, Sung Shin Shim, Yookyung Kim, Jin Hwa Lee

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Comparison of closed-chest drainage with rib resection closed drainage for treatment of chronic tuberculous empyema

Yong Fang, Heping Xiao, Wei Sha, Haili Hu, Xiaofang You

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Effect of chest tube size on pleurodesis efficacy in malignant pleural effusion: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Inderpal Thethi, Shokufeh Ramirez, Wei Shen, Dingding Zhang, Maha Mohamad, Upendra Kaphle, Fayez Kheir

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Superior vena cava replacement combined with venovenous shunt for lung cancer and thymoma: a case series

Wei Dai, Jifu Dong, Hongwei Zhang, Xiaojun Yang, Qiang Li

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The management of chemical pleurodesis with viscum album in patients with persistent air leakage

Jae Bum Park, Song Am Lee, Woo Surng Lee, Yo Han Kim, Jae Joon Hwang

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Deep sternal wound infection after cardiac surgery: a comparison of three different wound infection types and an analysis of antibiotic resistance

Jia-Gui Ma, Jian-Xiong An

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Prognostic significance of histologic classification and tumor disappearance rate by computed tomography in lung cancer

Dohun Kim, Hong Kwan Kim, Seok-Hyung Kim, Ho Yun Lee, Jong Ho Cho, Yong Soo Choi, Kwhanmien Kim, Jhingook Kim, Jae Ill Zo, Young Mog Shim

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Aberrant status and clinicopathologic characteristic associations of 11 target genes in 1,321 Chinese patients with lung adenocarcinoma

Mengnan Zhao, Cheng Zhan, Ming Li, Xiaodong Yang, Xinyu Yang, Yong Zhang, Miao Lin, Yifeng Xia, Mingxiang Feng, Qun Wang

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MicroRNA expression profile in primary lung cancer cells lines obtained by endobronchial ultrasound transbronchial needle aspiration

Juliana Guarize, Fabrizio Bianchi, Elena Marino, Elena Belloni, Manuela Vecchi, Stefano Donghi, Giorgio Lo Iacono, Chiara Casadio, Roberto Cuttano, Massimo Barberis, Pier Paolo Di Fiore, Francesco Petrella, Lorenzo Spaggiari

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Presence of pleural adhesions can predict conversion to thoracotomy and postoperative surgical complications in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic lung cancer lobectomy

Shuang-Jiang Li, Kun Zhou, Yan-Ming Wu, Ming-Ming Wang, Cheng Shen, Zhi-Qiang Wang, Guo-Wei Che, Lun-Xu Liu

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Sarcopenia is a predictor of outcomes after lobectomy

James A. Miller, Kassem Harris, Charles Roche, Samjot Dhillon, Athar Battoo, Todd Demmy, Chukwumere E. Nwogu, Elisabeth U. Dexter, Mark Hennon, Anthony Picone, Kristopher Attwood, Sai Yendamuri

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Risk factors and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene in congenital heart disease

Lina Wang, Bo Yang, Shiyuan Zhou, Huafang Gao, Fengyu Wang, Jiping Zhou, Haili Wang, Yanli Wang

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Esophageal cancer in elderly patients: a population-based study

Yuan Zeng, Wenhua Liang, Jun Liu, Jiaxi He, Calvin S. H. Ng, Chia-Chuan Liu, René Horsleben Petersen, Gaetano Rocco, Thomas D’Amico, Alessandro Brunelli, Haiquan Chen, Xiuyi Zhi, Xiao Dong, Wei Wang, Fei Cui, Dakai Xiao, Wenjun Wang, Wei Yang, Hui Pan, Jianxing He, written on behalf of the AME Thoracic Surgery Collaborative Group

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Predicting malignancy of pulmonary ground-glass nodules and their invasiveness by random forest

Xueyan Mei, Rui Wang, Wenjia Yang, Fangfei Qian, Xiaodan Ye, Li Zhu, Qunhui Chen, Baohui Han, Timothy Deyer, Jingyi Zeng, Xiaomeng Dong, Wen Gao, Wentao Fang

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Surgical Technique

A technique of minimally invasive aortic valve replacement: an alternative to transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)

Luke B. Henderson, Zuorui Song, Xiaotian Sun, John P. Pirris

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Emergency drain for post pneumonectomy bronchopleural fistula: a drain placement technique based on the siphon principle

Francesco Petrella, Alberto Sandri, Stefania Rizzo, Alessandro Borri, Domenico Galetta, Roberto Gasparri, Lorenzo Spaggiari

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Technical Note

Intramedullary reinforcement of sternal fixation with autologous xiphoid tenon

Jen-Ping Chang

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Visualized Surgery

Four arms robotic-assisted pulmonary resection—right lower/middle lobectomy: how to do it

Alessandro Pardolesi, Luca Bertolaccini, Jury Brandolini, Filippo Tommaso Gallina, Pierluigi Novellis, Giulia Veronesi, Piergiorgio Solli

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Review Article

Influence of estrogen in non-small cell lung cancer and its clinical implications

Vianey Rodriguez-Lara, Juan-Manuel Hernandez-Martinez, Oscar Arrieta

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Surgical approaches in patients with oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer

Luca Bertolaccini, Alessandro Pardolesi, Sergio Nicola Forti Parri, Barbara Bonfanti, Jury Brandolini, Piergiorgio Solli

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Current role of standardized uptake value_max-derived ratios in N2 fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography non-small cell lung cancer

Duilio Divisi, Mirko Barone, Roberto Crisci

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Exercise training in pulmonary arterial hypertension

Laura Adelaide Dalla Vecchia, Maurizio Bussotti

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Case Report of Interventional Pulmonology Corner¹

Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in managing persistent air leaks

Alberto Revelo, Sevak Keshishyan, Oleg Epelbaum, Saman Yaghoubian, Lawrence DeLorenzo, Dipak Chandy, Francis Carroll, Lisa Paul, Kassem Harris

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ECG Pearls²

The J-waves of hypothermia

Panagiotis Mililis, George Bazoukis, Athanasios Bakalakos, Konstantinos P. Letsas

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Editorial of Sleep Section³

Diagnostic criteria for obstructive sleep apnea: time for reappraisal

Walter T. McNicholas

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Editorial of GARD Section⁴

Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD) Brazil success case: overcoming barriers

Alvaro A. Cruz, Paulo A. Camargos, Marilyn Urrutia-Pereira, Rafael Stelmach

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Meet the Professor

Prof. Yih-Sharng Chen: a new era—to breakthrough the old times

Wei-En Fan

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Prof. Jang-Ming Lee: single-incision minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE), better recovery for patients

Tung-Lun Shih

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Prof. Miguel A. Cuesta: my experience to being a surgeon on gastrointestinal surgery (specially in esophageal cancer)

Silvia L. Zhou

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Prof. Pierluigi Stefano: new options for the surgical treatment of aortic valve

Julia Wang

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Prof. Kenji Suzuki: craziness on the road to success

Wei-En Fan

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Case Report

An adult case of plastic bronchitis: a rare and multifactorial disease

Matteo Coen, Laurent Daniel, Jacques Serratrice

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Concurrent thymic carcinoma and middle lobe syndrome

Xi Zheng, Yue Huang, Junhe Gou, Daxing Zhu, Qinghua Zhou

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Interrupted right-sided aortic arch: performance of umbilical xenograft after primary neonatal corrective surgery

Jasmin H. Shahinian, Daniel Tobler, Thomas Wolff, Martin Grapow

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Massive pericardial effusion after Nuss procedure: to drain or not to drain?

Peter S. Y. Yu, Vikki W. K. Ng, Rainbow W. H. Lau, Calvin S. H. Ng

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Unusual cardiac paraganglioma mimicking an atypical carcinoid tumor of the lung

Dean Spencer, Mark Evans, Beverly Wang, J. Lawrence Delrosario, Timmy Cheng, Jeffrey Milliken

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Approach to resection of sternoclavicular tumor abutting the common carotid artery in irradiated field

Juan A. Muñoz-Largacha, Jaromir Slama, Jeffrey Kalish, Scharukh Jalisi, Virginia R. Litle, Kei Suzuki

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Pneumatosis intestinalis after lung transplantation for pulmonary graft-versus-host disease

Kumi Mesaki, Seiichiro Sugimoto, Shinji Otani, Takeshi Kurosaki, Kentaroh Miyoshi, Masaomi Yamane, Takahiro Oto

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Report of a lung carcinoma extended to the left atrium through pulmonary vein

Federico Cipriano, Lycio U. Dessoti, Alfredo José Rodrigues, Walter Vilella de Andrade Vicente, Fernando Chahud, Paulo Roberto B. Evora

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Identifying interlobar fissure in a Craig grade 4 fissureless patient by near-infrared thoracoscopy

Hao Li, Jian Zhou, Fan Yang, Jun Wang

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Fan-shaped ground-glass opacity (GGO) as a premonitory sign of pulmonary infarction: a case report

Tsutomu Shinohara, Keishi Naruse, Norihiko Hamada, Takashi Yamasaki, Nobuo Hatakeyama, Fumitaka Ogushi

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Systemic air embolism after computed tomography-guided hook wire localization: two case reports and literature review

Jung Hoon Yi, Pil Jo Choi, Jung Hee Bang, Sang Seok Jeong, Joo Hyun Cho

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Missed diagnosis of esophageal leiomyoma leading to esophagectomy: a case report and review of literatures

Qi-Xin Shang, Yu-Shang Yang, Wen-Ping Wang, Wei-Peng Hu, Long-Qi Chen

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Hydroxychloroquine-induced cardiomyopathy and heart failure in twins

Hang Zhao, Joyce Wald, Michael Palmer, Yuchi Han

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Two cases of “stone heart” with fatal outcome

Mathias Hald, Jesper Hønge, Rolf Porskjær Dall, Signe Holm Larsen

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Letter to the Editor

CT angiography for coronary graft assessment

Carl Chartrand-Lefebvre, Louis-Mathieu Stevens, Samer Mansour, Nicolas Noiseux

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Revascularizing coronary artery disease in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation

Rafail A. Kotronias, Mamas A. Mamas, Rodrigo Bagur

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Hybrid procedures for persistent atrial fibrillation: necessity and timing of the catheter ablation stage

Alan Bulava

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The role of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in multimodality treatment of esophageal or gastroesophageal junction cancer

Fredrik Klevebro, Magnus Nilsson

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Possible refinement of the standard treatment of esophageal cancer

Cheng-Che Tu, Po-Kuei Hsu

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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 “ECG Pearls” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Adrian Baranchuk served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.

3. The series “Sleep Section” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Walter McNicholas served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.

4. The series “GARD Section” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Yousser Mohammad and Alvaro A. Cruz served as the unpaid Guest Editors for the series.

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