Vol 10, No 10 (October 26, 2018): Journal of Thoracic Disease

Editorial

Silencing or not silencing p63 in cardiac fibroblast, risks and benefits
Guillermo Díaz-Araya, Jenaro Antonio Espitia-Corredor
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Can pretransplant computed-tomographic assessment predict outcomes after lung transplantation?
Seiichiro Sugimoto
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:5652-5654
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A paradigm shift in the treatment of mild asthma?
Wei Tang, Lin Sun, J. Mark FizGerald
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:5655-5658
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Video-assisted thoracic surgery double sleeve resections: the next step
Andreas Hiebinger, Johannes Bodner
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2018;
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:5659-5660
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A physiological approach to refine appropriateness of revascularization, clinical decision making and prognosis in patients with multi vessel coronary artery disease
Linle Hou, Bobby Ghosh, Abdul Hakeem
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:5661-5665
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Guideline

Society for Translational Medicine expert consensus on training and certification standards for surgeons and assistants in minimally invasive surgery for lung cancer
Lunxu Liu, Jiandong Mei, Jie He, Shugeng Gao, Shanqing Li, Jianxing He, Yunchao Huang, Shidong Xu, Weimin Mao, Qunyou Tan, Chun Chen, Xiaofei Li, Zhu Zhang, Gening Jiang, Lin Xu, Lanjun Zhang, Jianhua Fu, Hui Li, Qun Wang, Deruo Liu, Lijie Tan, Qinghua Zhou, Xiangning Fu, Zhongmin Jiang, Haiquan Chen, Wentao Fang, Xun Zhang, Yin Li, Ti Tong, Zhentao Yu, Yongyu Liu, Xiuyi Zhi, Tiansheng Yan, Xingyi Zhang, Todd L. Demmy, Mark F. Berry, Alexia Belén Gutierrez Pérez, Daniele Cataneo, Andrea Bille, Peter Licht, Gregor J. Kocher, Murat Oncel, Serdar Evman, Katrine Jensen, Patrick Bagan, Raul Embun
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:5666-5672
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Original Article

Conventional MRI to detect the differences between mass-like tuberculosis and lung cancer
Li-Ping Qi, Ke-Neng Chen, Xiaohong Joe Zhou, Lei Tang, Yu-Liang Liu, Xiao-Ting Li, Juan Wang, Ying-Shi Sun
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:5673-5684
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Is an activity volume threshold really realistic for lung cancer resection?
Alain Bernard, Jonathan Cottenet, Anne-Sophie Mariet, Catherine Quantin, Pierre-Benoit Pagès
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2018;
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:5685-5694
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X-ray indices of chest drain malposition after insertion for drainage of pneumothorax in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients
Masego Candy Mokotedi, Lukas Lambert, Lucie Simakova, Michal Lips, Michal Zakharchenko, Jan Rulisek, Martin Balik
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2018;
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:5695-5701
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Early stage lung cancer survival after wedge resection and stereotactic body radiation
Emanuela Taioli, Wil Lieberman-Cribbin, Shoshana Rosenzweig, Maaike A. G. van Gerwen, Bian Liu, Raja M. Flores
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2018;
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:5702-5713
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Gene set enrichment analysis and meta-analysis to identify six key genes regulating and controlling the prognosis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Wenwu He, Linxin Chen, Kun Yuan, Qiuxi Zhou, Lin Peng, Yongtao Han
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2018;
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:5714-5726
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Patient preference for a maintenance inhaler in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a comparison of Breezhaler and Respimat
Philip O’Hagan, Juergen Dederichs, Boomi Viswanad, Matthias Gasser, Susann Walda
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2018;
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:5727-5735
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Elastic stable chest repair and its hybrid variants in 86 patients with pectus excavatum
Stefan Schulz-Drost, Anna Maria Luber, Kirsten Simon, Melanie Schulz-Drost, Julia Syed, Roman T. Carbon, Manuel Besendörfer
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2018;
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:5736-5746
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Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in patients with obesity hypoventilation syndrome
Hadil A. Al Otair, Fayez Elshaer, Alaa Elgishy, Samar Z. Nashwan, Aljohara S. Almeneessier, Awad H. Olaish, Ahmed S. BaHammam
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2018;
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:5747-5754
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Perioperative changes of serum albumin are a predictor of postoperative pulmonary complications in lung cancer patients: a retrospective cohort study
Pengfei Li, Jue Li, Yutian Lai, Yan Wang, Xin Wang, Jianhua Su, Guowei Che
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2018;
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:5755-5763
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A modified acute respiratory distress syndrome prediction score: a multicenter cohort study in China
Jianfeng Xie, Ling Liu, Yi Yang, Wenkui Yu, Maoqin Li, Kaijiang Yu, Ruiqiang Zheng, Jie Yan, Xue Wang, Guolong Cai, Jianguo Li, Qin Gu, Hongsheng Zhao, Xinwei Mu, Xiaochun Ma, Haibo Qiu
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2018;
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:5764-5773
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CT findings in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis: serial changes and prognostic implications
Bo Da Nam, Tae Jung Kim, Man Pyo Chung, Myung Jin Chung, Tae Sung Kim, Kyung Soo Lee
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2018;
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:5774-5783
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Risk for cardiovascular disease in patients with nontuberculous mycobacteria treated with macrolide
Jieun Kang, Ye-Jee Kim, Tae Sun Shim, Kyung-Wook Jo
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2018;
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:5784-5795
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Clinical differences between pulmonary and extrapulmonary acute respiratory distress syndrome: a retrospective cohort study of prospectively collected data in Japan
Keisuke Anan, Kodai Kawamura, Moritaka Suga, Kazuya Ichikado
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2018;
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:5796-5803
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Obstructive sleep apnea in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
Xue Yu, Zhiwei Huang, Yi Zhang, Zhihong Liu, Qin Luo, Zhihui Zhao, Qing Zhao, Liu Gao, Qi Jin, Lu Yan
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2018;
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:5804-5812
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Impact of cannula design on packed red blood cell transfusions: technical advancement to improve outcomes in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Gennaro Martucci, Giovanna Panarello, Giovanna Occhipinti, Giuseppe Raffa, Fabio Tuzzolino, Guido Capitanio, Tiziana Carollo, Giovanni Lino, Alessandro Bertani, Patrizio Vitulo, Michele Pilato, Roberto Lorusso, Antonio Arcadipane
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2018;
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:5813-5821
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Volumetric analysis of the thymic epithelial tumors: correlation of tumor volume with the WHO classification and Masaoka staging
Yukihisa Sato, Masahiro Yanagawa, Akinori Hata, Yukihiro Enchi, Noriko Kikuchi, Osamu Honda, Katsuyuki Nakanishi, Noriyuki Tomiyama
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2018;
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:5822-5832
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Risk stratification of severe aortic stenosis according to new guidelines: long term outcomes
Andrea Colli, Eleonora Bizzotto, Laura Besola, Dario Gregori, Francesca Toto, Erica Manzan, Gino Gerosa
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2018;
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:5833-5841
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Simultaneously surgical management of adult complex coarctation of aorta concomitant with intracardiac abnormality
Luyao Ma, Qun Gu, Buqing Ni, Haoliang Sun, Xiangxiang Zhen, Shijiang Zhang, Yongfeng Shao
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2018;
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:5842-5849
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Lobar versus sub-lobar surgery for pulmonary typical carcinoid, a population-based analysis
Muhammad Furqan, Yu-Yu Tien, Mary C. Schroeder, Kalpaj R. Parekh, John Keech, Bryan G. Allen, Alexandra Thomas, Jun Zhang, Gerald Clamon, Taher Abu Hejleh
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2018;
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:5850-5859
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Inhalation lung injury induced by smoke bombs in children: CT manifestations, dynamic evolution features and quantitative analysis
Yaqiong Ma, Shikui Zhang, Lianping Zhao, Xing Zhou, Zeqing Mao, Huaxin Xu, Xiaorui Ru, Gang Huang
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2018;
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:5860-5869
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Early discharge after lung resection is safe: 10-year experience
Christopher W. Towe, Alina Khil, Vanessa P. Ho, Yaron Perry, Luis Argote-Greene, Katherine M. Wu, Philip A. Linden
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2018;
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:5870-5878
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An enhanced recovery after surgery program for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery anatomical lung resections is cost-effective
Michel Gonzalez, Etienne Abdelnour-Berchtold, Jean Yannis Perentes, Valérie Doucet, Mathieu Zellweger, Carlos Marcucci, Hans-Beat Ris, Thorsten Krueger, Fabrizio Gronchi
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2018;
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:5879-5888
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miR-497 may enhance the sensitivity of non-small cell lung cancer cells to gefitinib through targeting the insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor
Wei Ma, Weiye Feng, Jie Tan, Airu Xu, Yudong Hu, Lanlan Ning, Yanhong Kang, Liuqian Wang, Ziwen Zhao
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2018;
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:5889-5897
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The feasibility and efficacy of two micro-portal video-assisted thoracic surgery in pulmonary lobectomy for lung cancer
Liping Tong, Xiaoqing Zheng, Hongtao Duan, Honggang Liu, Xiaofei Li, Xiaolong Yan
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2018;
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:5898-5903
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Exploratory analysis of introducing next-generation sequencing-based method to treatment-naive lung cancer patients
Yufang Feng, Gaohua Feng, Xiaoling Lu, Wenxia Qian, Junyi Ye, Carmen Areses Manrique, Chunping Ma, Yadong Lu, written on behalf of the AME Lung Cancer Collaborative Group
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2018;
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:5904-5912
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Macrolide antibiotics in the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis: evidence from a meta-analysis
Shen Shen, Hongfei Lou, Chengshuo Wang, Luo Zhang
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2018;
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:5913-5923
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Short Communication

Interstitial lung disease associated with anti-citrullinated peptide/ protein antibody-positive anti-synthetase syndrome
Hideaki Yamakawa, Eri Hagiwara, Tae Iwasawa, Ryota Otoshi, Erina Tabata, Satoshi Ikeda, Ryo Okuda, Tomohisa Baba, Shinichiro Iso, Koji Okudela, Tamiko Takemura, Shinji Sato, Takashi Ogura
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2018;
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:5924-5931
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Surgical Technique

Single-direction thoracoscopic lobectomy: left side
Hu Liao, Jiandong Mei, Feng Lin, Chengwu Liu, Qiang Pu, Lunxu Liu
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2018;
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:5932-5934
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Single-direction thoracoscopic lobectomy: right side
Hu Liao, Chengwu Liu, Jiandong Mei, Feng Lin, Qiang Pu, Lunxu Liu
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2018;
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:5935-5938
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Review Article

Magnetic resonance imaging of patients with airway stents
Yang Xia, Rui Jin, Wen Li, Huahao Shen
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2018;
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:5939-5945
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Heart-lung transplantation: current indications, prognosis and specific considerations
Jérôme Le Pavec, Sébastien Hascoët, Elie Fadel
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2018;
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:5946-5952
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Original Article of Interventional Pulmonology Corner1

Biopsy of peripheral lung nodules utilizing cone beam computer tomography with and without trans bronchial access tool: a retrospective analysis
Michal Jan Sobieszczyk, Zhuhui Yuan, Wei Li, William Krimsky
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:5953-5959
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Case Report of Interventional Pulmonology Corner1

Treatment of persistent bronchopleural fistula with a manually modified endobronchial stent: a case-report and brief literature review
Andres de Lima, Van Holden, Yaron Gesthalter, Michael S. Kent, Mihir Parikh, Adnan Majid, Alex Chee
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2018;
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:5960-5963
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An unusual complication of pigtail catheter insertion
Amina Saqib, Uroosa Ibrahim, Rabih Maroun
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2018;
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:5964-5967
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Case Report

Asthma-like symptoms induced by the methacholine challenge test: do they predict a negative-to-positive switch in the test result?—case report
Abraham B. Bohadana, Ariel Rokach, Pascal Wild, Gabriel Izbicki
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2018;
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:E716-E720
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Bronchiectasis after bronchial thermoplasty
Minzhi Qiu, Zhengdao Lai, Shushan Wei, Qian Jiang, Jiaxing Xie, Rihuang Qiu, Zhiqiang Wang, Changhao Zhong, Yu Chen, Qingling Zhang, Shiyue Li, Nanshan Zhong
Journal of Thoracic Disease  
2018;
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:E721-E726
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A case of sinobronchial syndrome progressing to diffuse panbronchiolitis despite low-dose, long-term macrolide therapy
Miki Abo, Yoshiaki Amino, Johsuke Hara, Noriyuki Ohkura, Takashi Sone, Hideharu Kimura, Kazuo Kasahara
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2018;
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:E727-E729
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Mediastinal lymphadenopathy reflecting disease activity in an infant with chronic pneumonitis of infancy associated with surfactant protein C mutation: a case report and literature review
Sang Hoon Lee, Young Ok Kim, Eun Lee, In Seok Jeong, Yoo-Duk Choi, Hwa Jin Cho
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2018;
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:E730-E735
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Use of veno-venous extracorporeal life support in a patient with cytomegalovirus and Pneumocystis jiroveci related respiratory failure due to thymoma associated immunodeficiency: a case report
Eva de Felice, Abraham Rutgers, Walter M. van den Bergh, Annemieke Oude Lansink-Hartgring
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2018;
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:E736-E738
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A combined subtype of small cell lung cancer and adenocarcinoma with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation responds to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Yong Zhang, Ling Ye, Huijun Zhang, Xuehua Chen, Haiying Ji, Gang Chen, Lu Zhang, Tengfei Zhang, Meiling Jin
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2018;
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:E739-E743
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Transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve implantation using a selfexpandable valve in a patient with an aortobiiliac bypass graft: a case report
Hirokazu Onishi, Toru Naganuma, Hiroyoshi Kawamoto, Sunao Nakamura
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2018;
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Meet the Professor

Trever G. Bivona: research requires motivation, persistence, open- mindedness and creativity
Brad Li
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Letter to the Editor

Author’s response to commentary on the PHANTASi trial
Rishi S. Nannan Panday, Eline M. J. Lammers, Nadia Alam, Prabath W. B. Nanayakkara
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2018;
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:E750-E751
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Prolonged targeted temperature management in patients suffering from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Hans Kirkegaard, Fabio Silvio Taccone, Markus B. Skrifvars, Eldar Søreide
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2018;
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:E752-E754
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The need to move away from fecal transplant towards targeted, refined microbiome therapy
Lindsey Russell, Tanya Monaghan, Dina Kao
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:E755-E757
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All things are created twice, but the surgeon only gets one chance: bronchoscopy marking may help the surgeon to perform sublobar resection
Samy Lachkar, Jean Marc Baste, Mathieu Salaün, Luc Thiberville
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2018;
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:E758-E760
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How long should comatose patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest be cooled?
Hans Kirkegaard, Fabio Silvio Taccone, Markus B. Skrifvars, Eldar Søreide
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2018;
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Complemental analysis about postoperative opioid consumption between video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and roboticassisted thoracic surgery (RATS) for early-stage lung cancer
Gary Duclos, Noemie Resseguier, Romain Ronfle, Pascal-Alexandre Thomas, Marc Leone
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2018;
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Pursuit of physiologic pacing
Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, Daniel Gellan
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2018;
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:E766-E767
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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.