Vol 10, Supplement 33 (November 27, 2018): Journal of Thoracic Disease

Editorial

Non-pulmonary manifestations of respiratory syncytial virus infection

Despoina Gkentzi, Gabriel Dimitriou, Ageliki Karatza

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Is only fixed positive airway pressure a robust tool for kidney protection in patients with obstructive sleep apnea?

Kyoung Sook Park, Ea Wha Kang

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Smart devices for a smart detection of atrial fibrillation

Juan Benezet-Mazuecos, Camila S. García-Talavera, José Manuel Rubio

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The elusive ground glass opacity, revealed

Melissa L. Korb, Bryan M. Burt

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Prophylaxis with amiodarone for postoperative atrial fibrillation: when and who?

Willemijn F. B. van der Does, Natasja M. S. de Groot

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Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy: transitions in practice

Andrew P. Dhanasopon, Daniel J. Boffa

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Osimertinib—first or second line for epidermal growth factor (EGFR) mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer?

John A. Green

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Preoperative pulmonary function testing and postoperative complications

Yusuke Takahashi, Shigeki Suzuki

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The significance of surgery following concurrent chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Masanobu Nakajima, Hiroto Muroi, Maiko Kikuchi

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Psoas muscle area: a new standard for frailty assessment in cardiac surgery?

Leora B. Balsam

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Early post-traumatic pulmonary-embolism in patients requiring ICU admission: more complicated than we think!

Mabrouk Bahloul, Mariem Dlela, Nadia Khlaf Bouaziz, Olfa Turki, Hedi Chelly, Mounir Bouaziz

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Current situation and consideration on the enhanced recovery protocols in lung cancer surgery

Shuangjiang Li, Guowei Che, Cheng Shen, Kun Zhou

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Spontaneous ventilation in thoracoscopic thymectomy: breathing freely

Brian Cohen, M. Blair Marshall

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Preemptive endovascular treatment of uncomplicated Stanford Type B aortic dissection

Tadashi Kitamura

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Aortic wall inflammation: a more accurate predictor of aneurysm expansion and aneurysm rupture risk than aortic diameter?

Kosmas I. Paraskevas

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Digital pleural drainages—what is the real value for patients?

Marcelo Jiménez, Nuria Novoa, Gonzalo Varela

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Two-edged sword: how activation of the “proto-oncogene” yes-associated protein 1 in lung squamous cell carcinoma can surprisingly inhibit tumor growth

Thomas Andl, Claudia D. Andl, Yuhang Zhang

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A case for the smart use of smartwatch-based technologies

Tommaso Sanna

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NIBIT-MESO-1: limitations and clinical perspectives in MPM treatment testing an immune checkpoint blockade combination in a single-arm study

Paolo Bironzo, Riccardo Taulli

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Digital pleural drainage technology is here to stay—time to realize its potential

Ching Yeung, Sebastien Gilbert

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The application of the “KISS principle” for the treatment of type A acute aortic dissection: is this always right?

Luca Di Marco, Alessandro Leone, Giacomo Murana, Davide Pacini

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Standardization in maze procedure: a step towards a better future

Ovidio A. García-Villarreal

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Early stage resectable non-small cell lung cancer: is neoadjuvant immunotherapy the right way forward?

Rita Chiari, Angelo Sidoni, Giulio Metro

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Dual role of YAP: oncoprotein and tumor suppressor

Eekhoon Jho

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To do or not to do lymphadenectomy in part-solid lung adenocarcinoma

Woohyun Jung, Sukki Cho

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The use of del Nido cardioplegia for multiple cardiac surgery in adults

Wan Kee Kim, Joon Bum Kim

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Targeted surgical therapy for lung cancer

Brendon M. Stiles

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Hyperoxia in post-cardiac arrest: friend or foe?

Jean-François Llitjos, Alain Cariou

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Empyema editorial

Daniel G. Dunlap, Roy Semaan, David Feller-Kopman

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Biomarkers for early detection of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury

Reza Tavakoli, Guillaume Lebreton

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A myo-inositol diet for lung cancer prevention and beyond

Jae-il Roh, Han-Woong Lee

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Editorial on “Long-term outcomes after near-infrared sentinel lymph node mapping in non-small cell lung cancer”

Elisa Meacci, Dania Nachira, Marco Chiappetta, Maria Teresa Congedo, Leonardo Petracca-Ciavarella, Gianmaria Ferretti, Stefano Margaritora

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Predicting factors of ground-glass lung nodule for growth

Takatoshi Aoki

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Radiologic presentation of non-small cell lung cancer treated with anti-PD-1 therapy

Eun Young Kim, Young Saing Kim, Inkeun Park, Hee Kyung Ahn, Hee Young Lee, Jeong Ho Kim

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Morphological assessment of thymic carcinoma through imaging: is computed tomography useful in selecting patients for surgery and in predicting incomplete resection?

Adriano Massimiliano Priola, Sandro Massimo Priola

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Editorial on the article entitled “Secondary surgical-site infection after coronary artery bypass grafting: A multi-institutional prospective cohort study”

Francesco Nicolini

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Induction systemic therapy followed by surgery for stages II–III non-small cell lung cancer: steady efforts

Ikuo Sekine, Yuka Aida, Hideo Suzuki

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Strain overestimates non-viable myocardium in patients with ischemic mitral regurgitation: understandable discrepancy of complementary methods?

Jonathan Beaudoin, Mario Sénéchal

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Meticulous lymph node dissection and gross pathological examination improves survival in non-small cell lung cancer patients

Matthias Heldwein, Maximilian Michel, Fabian Doerr, Khosro Hekmat

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The role of handheld spirometry in lung surgery

Gregor J. Kocher, Konstantinos Gioutsos

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Driving pressure in obese patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: one size fits all?

Felipe S. L. Vianna, Flavia Julie do Amaral Pfeilsticker, Ary Serpa Neto

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Epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors in adjuvant treatment of lung cancer—the more specific, the better?

Elisabeth Smolle, Martin Pichler

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Intracellular signal transduction pathways as potential drug targets for ischemia-reperfusion injury in lung transplantation

Lei Huang, Chengliang Yang, Mingyao Liu

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The usefulness of radiographic imaging for predicting the resectability of thymic carcinoma

Yoshiyuki Ozawa

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Preoperative detrimental effect on cerebral function of severe congenital heart disease

Andrew C. Chatzis, Evangelia Grisbolaki

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Chylothorax, new insights in treatment

Pavlos Papoulidis, Puwalani Vidanapathirana, Joel Dunning

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Deciding to trust, coming to believe: sentinel lymph node assessment in lung cancer

Yin-Kai Chao

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Spontaneous ventilation thoracoscopic thymectomy: attractive or exceptionable?

Eugenio Pompeo, Ahmed G. Elkhouly

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MDT is still important in the treatment of early stage lung cancer

Hongbing Liu, Yong Song

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Precision and targeted therapy in cardiac surgery

Ali Fatehi Hassanabad, Paul W. M. Fedak

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Plasma neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) for timing of initiation of renal replacement therapy for acute kidney injury?

Eric A. Hoste, Wim Vandenberghe

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Tumor mutation burden in lung cancer: a new predictive biomarker for immunotherapy or too soon to tell?

Mariam Alexander, Jose Galeas, Haiying Cheng

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Smoking cessation and lung cancer screening: new perspectives from the SCALE project

Filippo Lococo, Giuseppe Cardillo, Giulia Veronesi

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Taking care of the soldiers

Song Wan, Zhao-Yun Cheng

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What are the best predictors and management for a long-term clinical success after surgical AF ablation?

Shiro Nakahara

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Renal resistive index as a biomarker for acute kidney injury in aortic valve surgery

Thin Xuan Vo, Munir Boodhwani

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The effect of smoking and TP53 mutations on molecular-targeted therapy in lung adenocarcinoma patients

Katsuhiro Okuda, Hiroshi Haneda, Keisuke Yokota, Tsutomu Tatematsu, Ryoichi Nakanishi

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Targeting the miR-630/YAP1/ERK feedback loop in epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated lung adenocarcinomas

Jinglin Zhang, Alfred S. L. Cheng, Jun Yu, Ka Fai To, Wei Kang

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Gap between clinical and basic researches in multifocal synchronous lung adenocarcinoma studies

Yoshihisa Shimada, Norihiko Ikeda

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Combined exosomal RNA and circulating tumor DNA for epidermal growth factor mutation detection in non-small cell lung cancer

Chiara Lazzari, Vanesa Gregorc, Maria Giulia Cangi, Elisa Giovannetti, Alessandra Bulotta, Mariacarmela Santarpia

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Effect of preoperative pregabalin in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Noriyuki Matsutani, Nobuhiko Seki

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Intrathoracic core needle biopsy and repeat biopsy for PD-L1 evaluation in non-small cell lung cancer

Giulia Maria Stella, Chandra Bortolotto, Andrea Riccardo Filippi

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PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitor toxicities in non-small cell lung cancer

Bairavi Shankar, Jarushka Naidoo

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Lung-sparing intensity-modulated radiotherapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma: palliative or potentially radical?

Angela Botticella, Dirk De Ruysscher

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Single ventricle, many arrhythmias

Robert Whitehill, Peter Fischbach, Matthew E. Oster

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Editorial on: current state of empyema management

Martin Reichert, Johannes Bodner

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Firmer footing for ventilating and monitoring the injured lung

John J. Marini

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Electrical storm: mechanistic and therapeutic considerations to avoid death in the survivors

Yukiomi Tsuji, Dobromir Dobrev

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Chronic dyspnoea: finding the cause to reduce mortality

Gene R. Pesola, Vikhyath Terla, Nasir Malik, Habibul Ahsan

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Circulating tumor DNA analysis in patients with EGFR mutant lung cancer

Shigeki Nanjo, Trever G. Bivona

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“Comparison of the toxicity profile of PD-1 versus PD-L1 inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer”: is there a substantial difference or not?

Alessia Spagnuolo, Cesare Gridelli

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Do toxicity patterns vary between programmed death-1 and programmed death ligand-1 inhibitors?

Dwight H. Owen, Gregory A. Otterson

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Editorial on ‘Estimation of Myocardial Viability in Patients with Ischaemic Mitral Regurgitation’ (Morgan et al.)

Shubhra Sinha, Hunaid A. Vohra

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Editorial on “What FDG-PET response-assessment method best predicts survival after curative-intent chemoradiation in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): EORTC, PERCIST, Peter Mac or Deauville criteria?”

Joan Fledelius

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Permanent pacemaker implantation is never a benign complication after aortic valve replacement

Suk Ho Sohn, Ho Young Hwang

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Programmed death ligand-1 inhibitors potentially carry a lower risk of pneumonitis compared with programmed death-1 inhibitors in patients with non-small cell lung cancer

Minoru Fukuda, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Mukae, Kazuto Ashizawa

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Airway pressure release ventilation versus conventional ventilation for the management of pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome: do we have an answer?

Krishna Kishore Umapathi, Maroun J. Mhanna

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Non-ablative hypofractionated hemithoracic radiation—a new standard of care in mesothelioma?

Marc de Perrot, John Cho

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Left ventricular assist device may improve glycemic control in diabetes mellitus patients but the reverse is not true

Amer Hamdan, Etienne Puymirat, Nicolas Danchin, Nadia Aissaoui

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The importance of PD-L1 diagnostic assay harmonization for the selection of lung cancer immunotherapy

Juan-Manuel Hernandez-Martinez, Zyanya Lucia Zatarain-Barrón, Andrés F. Cardona, Oscar Arrieta

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The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ventilatory management is still a complicated picture

Davide Chiumello, Silvia Coppola

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Examining EML4-ALK variants in the clinical setting: the next frontier?

Malini Patel, Jyoti Malhotra, Salma K. Jabbour

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Serum microRNA guiding personalized radiation therapy in nonsmall cell lung cancer

Neha P. Amin, Pranshu Mohindra, Salma K. Jabbour

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A leopard can’t change its spots: can a T790M mutation-positive cancer change its spots after epidermal growth factor receptortyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy?

Kai Obayashi, Kimihiro Shimizu, Seshiru Nakazawa, Yoichi Ohtaki, Natsuko Kawatani, Ibe Takashi, Toshiki Yajima, Akira Mogi, Ken Shirabe

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The false illusion of coronary thrombus device-management

Benoit Lattuca, Gilles Montalescot

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The ongoing struggle with empyema management: is surgery really the answer?

Eihab O. Bedawi, Lonny Yarmus, Najib M. Rahman

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Computed tomography characteristics of non-small cell lung cancers with EGFR T790M mutation: role of imaging in the era of precision medicine

Hyungjin Kim, Hyun-Ju Lee

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Postoperative chest tube management for patients undergoing lobectomy: evidence-based practice

Fayez Kheir

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SmgGDS, a new piece in the thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection puzzle

Marjolijn Renard

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Frailty—a strong risk marker in heart surgery?

Ulrik Sartipy

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Challenges in thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection

Hiroki Aoki

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Oscillating between prone ventilation and ECMO?

Jayshree Lavana, Kiran Shekar

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Significance of testing for TP53 gene mutations in lung adenocarcinoma using targeted gene sequencing

Yuki Matsumura, Yuki Owada-Ozaki, Hiroyuki Suzuki

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Expanding the gamut of circulating tumor DNA applications

Meghan Kaumaya, Balazs Halmos

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Psoas muscle index: a novel instrument in planning the treatment of severe aortic stenosis in frail patients

Vito D. Bruno, Mustafa Zakkar

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Indications and timing of conversion to thoracotomy during videoassisted lung resection

Francesco Petrella

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Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery versus surgery alone for locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus: the (NEOCRTEC5010) trial—a timely and welcome clinical trial from the Far East

Toni Lerut

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Successful rebuilding after disaster, even in the heart, starts with infrastructure

Michael P. Robich, Sergey Ryzhov, Douglas B. Sawyer

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Lung resection and immunotherapy: two allied for a new hope in lung cancer cure

Bertrand Mennecier, Anne Olland, Gilbert Massard, Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz

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Changing paradigms of non-small cell lung cancer treatment

Francesco Guerrera, Fabrizio Tabbò, Enrico Ruffini, Pietro Bertoglio

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Liquid biopsy guided precision therapy for lung cancers

Chongrui Xu, Michael Offin, Paul K. Paik, Bob T. Li

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Letter to the Editor

Clinical application of invasive cardiopulmonary exercise test for dyspnea diagnosis in Chinese people

Yi Gao, Tao Wang, Chunli Liu, Yi Hong, Wenli Chen, Yanghan Chen, Nuofu Zhang, Shiyue Li, Jingping Zheng, Nanshan Zhong, Cheng Hong

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Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: the great pretender

Eluisa La Franca, Calogero Falletta, Giuseppe Maria Raffa, Giovanni Gentile, Gabriele Di Gesaro, Cesar Mario Hernandez Baravoglia, Caterina Gandolfo, Antonella Frenda, Giuseppe Caramanno, Francesco Clemenza, Michele Pilato

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Mitochondria in β-adrenergic signaling: emerging therapeutic perspectives in heart failure and ventricular arrhythmias

Christos Kontogiannis, Marinos Kosmopoulos, Georgios Georgiopoulos, Michael Spartalis, Ioannis Paraskevaidis, Sofia Chatzidou

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Disclosure:

The supplement was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding.