Vol 11, No 6 (June 29, 2019) - Journal of Thoracic Disease

Piotr Buczkowski, Mateusz Puślecki, Natalia Majewska, Tomasz Urbanowicz, Marcin Misterski, Robert Juszkat, Jerzy Kulesza, Bartosz Żabicki, Sebastian Stefaniak, Marcin Ligowski, Lukasz Szarpak, Marek Jemielity, Eva Rivas, Kurt Ruetzler, Bartłomiej Perek

PDF Pages: 2240-2250 Full Text (2187) Open Access

Age at diagnosis is a heterogeneous factor for non-small cell lung cancer patients

Tao Chen, Fangyu Zhou, Weili Jiang, Rui Mao, Hui Zheng, Linlin Qin, Chang Chen

PDF Pages: 2251-2266 Full Text (4039) Open Access

Favorable clinical application for segmental bronchial closure based on experiment results

Hiroaki Kuroda, Yusuke Sugita, Keita Nakanishi, Yuko Oya, Noriaki Sakakura, Yukinori Sakao

PDF Pages: 2267-2273 Full Text (1453) Open Access

HIV-infected patients with opportunistic pulmonary infections misdiagnosed as lung cancers: the clinicoradiologic features and initial application of CT radiomics

Weiya Shi, Lingxiao Zhou, Xueqing Peng, He Ren, Qinglei Wang, Fei Shan, Zhiyong Zhang, Lei Liu, Yuxin Shi

PDF Pages: 2274-2286 Full Text (2627) Open Access

Comparison of lymphocyte immune phenotypes in bronchoalveolar lavage of non-smoking patients with sarcoidosis and other interstitial lung diseases

Eva Novosadova, Zdenka Navratilova, Marta Ordeltova, Monika Zurkova, Jaromir Zatloukal, Vitezslav Kolek, Martin Petrek

PDF Pages: 2287-2296 Full Text (2056) Open Access

Percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale under transthoracic echocardiography guidance—midterm results

Tao Yang, Gianfranco Butera, Wen-Bin Ou-Yang, Guang-Zhi Zhao, Feng-Wen Zhang, Xiang-Bin Pan

PDF Pages: 2297-2304 Full Text (1670) Open Access

Off pump hybrid extra-anatomic techniques for aortic arch repair—own experience

Piotr Buczkowski, Mateusz Puslecki, Sebastian Stefaniak, Robert Juszkat, Jerzy Kulesza, Marcin Misterski, Tomasz Urbanowicz, Marcin Ligowski, Bartosz Zabicki, Marek Dabrowski, Lukasz Szarpak, Damian Gorczyca, Marek Jemielity, Bartłomiej Perek

PDF Pages: 2305-2314 Full Text (2257) Open Access

The Cancer Genome Atlas dataset-based analysis of aberrantly expressed genes by GeneAnalytics in thymoma associated myasthenia gravis: focusing on T cells

Jianying Xi, Liang Wang, Chong Yan, Jie Song, Yang Song, Ji Chen, Yongjun Zhu, Zhiming Chen, Chun Jin, Jianyong Ding, Chongbo Zhao

PDF Pages: 2315-2323 Full Text (2307) Open Access

Clinical characteristics and economic burden of tuberculous-destroyed lung in Korea: a National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort-based study

Hwa Young Lee, Deok Jae Han, Kyung Joo Kim, Tae Hoon Kim, Yeon-Mok Oh, Chin Kook Rhee

PDF Pages: 2324-2331 Full Text (1707) Open Access

Perioperative change in lymphocyte count and prognosis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Qian Song, Jun-Zhou Wu, Sheng Wang

PDF Pages: 2332-2339 Full Text (1439) Open Access

Changing trends in aortic valve procedures over the past ten years—from mechanical prosthesis via stented bioprosthesis to TAVI procedures—analysis of 50,846 aortic valve cases based on a Polish National Cardiac Surgery Database

Krzysztof Bartus, Jerzy Sadowski, Radoslaw Litwinowicz, Grzegorz Filip, Marek Jasinski, Marek Deja, Mariusz Kusmierczyk, Szymon Pawlak, Marek Jemielity, Dariusz Jagielak, Piotr Hendzel, Piotr Suwalski, Zdzisław Tobota, Bohdan Maruszewski, Boguslaw Kapelak

PDF Pages: 2340-2349 Full Text (3720) Open Access

Impact of clinical features on the efficacy of osimertinib therapy in patients with T790M-positive non-small cell lung cancer and acquired resistance to epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors

Yasuhiro Kato, Yukio Hosomi, Kageaki Watanabe, Makiko Yomota, Shoko Kawai, Yusuke Okuma, Kaoru Kubota, Masahiro Seike, Akihiko Gemma, Tatsuru Okamura

PDF Pages: 2350-2360 Full Text (2282) Open Access

Prognosis after wedge resection in patients with 8^th edition TNM stage IA1 and IA2 non-small cell lung cancer

Youngkyu Moon, Jae Kil Park, Kyo Young Lee, Eun Sung Kim

PDF Pages: 2361-2372 Full Text (2113) Open Access

Single-dose del Nido cardioplegia used in adult minimally invasive valve surgery

Haiyan Luo, Xiaomin Qi, Hui Shi, Hui Zhao, Chaoqi Liu, Hongsong Chen, Runsheng Peng, Zhangsheng Yu, Kejian Hu, Chunsheng Wang, Xin Li

PDF Pages: 2373-2382 Full Text (4397) Open Access

Deep targeted sequencing analysis of hot spot mutations in non-small cell lung cancer patients from the Middle Eastern population

Pierre Khoueiry, Ghina Fakhri, Reem Akel, Majd El Assaad, Rami Mahfouz, Fadlo Khuri, Hassan Chami, Jason Petersen, Sarah Viet, Gareth Davies, Humam Kadara, Arafat Tfayli

PDF Pages: 2383-2391 Full Text (1917) Open Access

Comparing attenuations of malignant and benign solitary pulmonary nodule using semi-automated region of interest selection on contrast-enhanced CT

Yangsean Choi, Bo Mi Gil, Myung Hee Chung, Won Jong Yoo, Na Young Jung, Yong Hyun Kim, Soon Seog Kwon, Jeana Kim

PDF Pages: 2392-2401 Full Text (6173) Open Access

Hybrid coronary revascularization versus off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous coronary intervention for the treatment of two-vessel coronary artery disease with proximal left anterior descending artery stenosis

Jiapei Qiu, Pengxiong Zhu, Zixiong Liu, Hong Xu, Jun Liu, Qiang Zhao

PDF Pages: 2402-2409 Full Text (1909) Open Access

Clinical relevance of chronic respiratory disease in Korean patients with pulmonary thromboembolism

Hyeyoung Park, Seung-Ick Cha, Jae-Kwang Lim, Kyung-Min Shin, Yong-Hoon Lee, Hyewon Seo, Seung-Soo Yoo, Shin-Yup Lee, Jaehee Lee, Chang-Ho Kim, Jae-Yong Park

PDF Pages: 2410-2419 Full Text (1249) Open Access

Lobectomy in octogenarians: real world outcomes for robotic-assisted, video-assisted thoracoscopic, and open approaches

Inderpal S. Sarkaria, Madhu Lalitha Gorrepati, Shilpa Mehendale, Daniel S. Oh

PDF Pages: 2420-2430 Full Text (1483) Open Access

Learning curve for robot-assisted lobectomy of lung cancer

Guisong Song, Xiao Sun, Shuncheng Miao, Shicheng Li, Yandong Zhao, Yunpeng Xuan, Tong Qiu, Zejun Niu, Jianfang Song, Wenjie Jiao

PDF Pages: 2431-2437 Full Text (2288) Open Access

Fractional exhaled nitric oxide was not associated with the future risk of exacerbations in Chinese asthmatics: a non-interventional 1-year real-world study

Yafei Yuan, Bohou Li, Minyu Huang, Xianru Peng, Wenqu Zhao, Yanmei Ye, Peifang Zhang, Changhui Yu, Hangming Dong, Shaoxi Cai, Haijin Zhao

PDF Pages: 2438-2447 Full Text (1559) Open Access

Clinical significance of Charlson comorbidity index as a prognostic parameter for patients with acute or subacute idiopathic interstitial pneumonias and acute exacerbation of collagen vascular diseases-related interstitial pneumonia

Kota Murohashi, Yu Hara, Yusuke Saigusa, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Takashi Sato, Masaki Yamamoto, Makoto Kudo, Takeshi Kaneko

PDF Pages: 2448-2457 Full Text (4078) Open Access

The mSHOX2 is capable of assessing the therapeutic effect and predicting the prognosis of stage IV lung cancer

Xiumei Peng, Xiaoliang Liu, Long Xu, Yuemin Li, Huaiqing Wang, Lele Song, Wenhua Xiao

PDF Pages: 2458-2469 Full Text (1752) Open Access

Traditional Japanese herbal medicine rikkunshito increases food intake and plasma acylated ghrelin levels in patients with esophageal cancer treated by cisplatin-based chemotherapy

Yoich Hamai, Tomoharu Yoshiya, Jun Hihara, Manabu Emi, Takaoki Furukawa, Ichiko Yamakita, Yuta Ibuki, Morihito Okada

PDF Pages: 2470-2478 Full Text (3787) Open Access

Questionnaire survey comparing surgery and stereotactic body radiotherapy for lung cancer: lessons from patients with experience of both modalities

Atsuya Takeda, Naoko Sanuki, Yuichiro Tsurugai, Masataka Taguri, Nobuyuki Horita, Yu Hara, Takahisa Eriguchi, Takeshi Akiba, Akitomo Sugawara, Etsuo Kunieda, Takeshi Kaneko

PDF Pages: 2479-2489 Full Text (1892) Open Access

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations and progression in relation to ambient air pollutants exposure

Miglena Doneva, Guenka Petrova, Daniela Petrova, Maria Kamusheva, Valentina Petkova, Konstantin Tachkov, Ventsislava Pencheva, Ognyan Georgiev

PDF Pages: 2490-2497 Full Text (1697) Open Access

Primary mediastinal neoplasms: a report of 1,005 cases from a single institution

Malgorzata Szolkowska, Ewa Szczepulska-Wojcik, Beata Maksymiuk, Barbara Burakowska, Sebastian Winiarski, Juliusz Gatarek, Piotr Rudzinski, Tadeusz Orlowski, Renata Langfort

PDF Pages: 2498-2511 Full Text (1919) Open Access

Adjuvant therapy for pathological T3N0M0 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Xiaobin Zhang, Yu Yang, Yifeng Sun, Bo Ye, Xufeng Guo, Teng Mao, Rong Hua, Bin Li, Haiyong Gu, Jun Liu, Zhigang Li

PDF Pages: 2512-2522 Full Text (2124) Open Access

Lobectomy versus sub-lobar resection in patients with stage IA right middle lobe non-small cell lung cancer: a propensity score matched analysis

Gang Lin, Haibo Liu, Jian Li

PDF Pages: 2523-2534 Full Text (1622) Open Access

Effects of preoperative sarcopenia on postoperative complications of minimally invasive oesophagectomy for oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Jinxin Xu, Bin Zheng, Shuliang Zhang, Taidui Zeng, Hao Chen, Wei Zheng, Chun Chen

PDF Pages: 2535-2545 Full Text (1826) Open Access

Adjuvant chemotherapy is associated with improved survival in patients with nodal metastases after neoadjuvant therapy and esophagectomy

Justin Drake, Kurt Tauer, David Portnoy, Benny Weksler

PDF Pages: 2546-2554 Full Text (1631) Open Access

Descriptive review of patent ductus arteriosus ligation by video-assisted thoracoscopy in pediatric population: 7-year experience

Tomasz Stankowski, Sleiman Sebastian Aboul-Hassan, Farzaneh Seifi-Zinab, Dirk Fritzsche, Marcin Misterski, Ivan Sazdovski, Jakub Marczak, Anna Szymańska, Lukasz Szarpak, Kurt Ruetzler, Sanchit Ahuja, Bartłomiej Perek

PDF Pages: 2555-2563 Full Text (1983) Open Access

Surgical Technique

Thoracolaparoscopic McKeown esophagectomy

Changchun Wang, Chao Pan, Weimin Mao, Qixun Chen, Jinshi Liu, Jian Hu

PDF Pages: 2564-2566 Full Text (Video) (2411) Open Access

Combined laparoscopic and thoracoscopic Ivor Lewis esophagectomy using the transorally inserted anvil—the experience of Fujian Medical University Union Hospital

Zhenyang Zhang, Jiangbo Lin, Linwei Zhuang, Mingqiang Kang

PDF Pages: 2567-2570 Full Text (Video) (1558) Open Access

Thoracoscopic-laparoscopic esophagectomy and two-field lymph node dissection

Kun-Kun Li, Yin-Jian Wang, Xue-Hai Liu, Wei Guo

PDF Pages: 2571-2575 Full Text (Video) (1435) Open Access

A novel hybrid approach for enucleation of esophageal leiomyoma

Liang Chen, Khader Hussain, Yuchen Su, Zhitao Gu, Chunyu Ji, Wentao Fang

PDF Pages: 2576-2580 Full Text (Video) (2050) Open Access

Guideline

Chinese guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults (2018 Edition)

Yi Shi, Yi Huang, Tian-Tuo Zhang, Bin Cao, Hui Wang, Chao Zhuo, Feng Ye, Xin Su, Hong Fan, Jin-Fu Xu, Jing Zhang, Guo-Xiang Lai, Dan-Yang She, Xiang-Yan Zhang, Bei He, Li-Xian He, You-Ning Liu, Jie-Ming Qu, on behalf of Infection Study Group of Chinese Thoracic Society, Chinese Medical Association

PDF Pages: 2581-2616 Full Text (13859) Open Access

Air Pollution Section¹

Particulate matter disrupts airway epithelial barrier via oxidative stress to promote Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection

Jinguo Liu, Xiaoyan Chen, Maosen Dou, Hong He, Mohan Ju, Shimeng Ji, Jian Zhou, Cuicui Chen, Donghui Zhang, Changhong Miao, Yuanlin Song

PDF Pages: 2617-2627 Full Text (3464) Open Access

Review Article of Interventional Pulmonology Corner²

Bronchoscopic ablation of peripheral lung tumors

Bruce F. Sabath, Roberto F. Casal

PDF Pages: 2628-2638 Full Text (2488) Open Access

Editorial of GARD Section³

World No Tobacco Day 2019 puts the spotlight on lung health

Cherian Varghese, Giuseppe Troisi, Kerstin Schotte, Vinayak M. Prasad, Simone Marie St Claire

PDF Pages: 2639-2642 Full Text (1843) Open Access

Chronic respiratory diseases global mortality trends, treatment guidelines, life style modifications, and air pollution: preliminary analysis

Nikolai Khaltaev, Svetlana Axelrod

PDF Pages: 2643-2655 Full Text (4372) Open Access

Letter to the Editor

Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and drug resistance: transitioning away from death

Kyung-A Song, Anthony C. Faber

PDF Pages: E82-E85 Full Text (2138) Open Access

Lobectomy for patients with marginal pulmonary function: an indication for robotics

Peter J. Kneuertz, Robert E. Merritt

PDF Pages: E86-E87 Full Text (1219) Open Access

Erratum

Erratum to radical surgical resection after neoadjuvant targeted therapy in non-small cell lung cancer: a single-center retrospective study of 6 cases

Zhenyang Zhang, Jiangbo Lin, Shuai Peng, Wenwei Lin, Mingqiang Kang

PDF Pages: E88-E89 Full Text (Video) (1018) Open Access

Disclosure:

1. The series “Air Pollution” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Junfeng (Jim) Zhang served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.

2. 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.

3. 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.

Vol 11, No 6 (June 29, 2019): Journal of Thoracic Disease

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