Vol 11, Supplement 15 (September 29, 2019): Journal of Thoracic Disease

Editorial

Impact of performance status and age on osimertinib efficacy in patients with EGFR-mutant T790M-positive non-small-cell lung cancer

Giuseppe Lamberti, Elisa Andrini, Biagio Ricciuti

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PDA clipping by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Koh Takeuchi

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Relationship between performance status or younger age and osimertinib therapy in T790M-positive NSCLC: are the available data convincing?

Umberto Malapelle, Antonio Rossi, Emilio Bria

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Bridging the gap: how do we improve long-term survival of locally-advanced esophageal cancer patients?

Andrew E. Giles, Biniam Kidane

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Respecting your elders: osimertinib demonstrates preferential activity in elderly patients with T790M positive non-small cell lung cancers

Hiromichi Ebi, Sosipatros Boikos, Anthony C. Faber

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

Chong-Kin Liam, Mau-Ern Poh, Yong-Sheng Liam

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Does osimertinib treatment discriminate young patients?

Cheng Ji, Chongke Zhong, Shi-Yong Sun

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Adjuvant chemotherapy for poor pathologic response after pre-operative chemoradiation in esophageal cancer: infeasible and illogical

Megan Greally, Geoffrey Y. Ku

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Devil is in the detail—how to critically analyze studies designed to assess effectiveness of topical antibiotics in preventing sternal wound infections?

Michał Pasierski, Kamil Zieliński, Giuseppe Maria Raffa, Harold Lazar, Roberto Lorusso, Piotr Suwalski, Mariusz Kowalewski

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Editorial Commentary

Autopsy and clinical discrepancies in patients undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a case series—a step towards understanding “Why”?

Chadi Aludaat, Matthieu Sarsam, Fabien Doguet, Jean-Marc Baste

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Randomized phase II trial reporting overall survival advantage by adding local consolidative therapy to systemic therapy for oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer: another step forward on the long road of evidence-based medicine for oligometastatic disease

Paul Windisch, Matthias Guckenberger

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Optimal postoperative surveillance strategy in patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery for esophageal carcinoma

Kotaro Sugawara, Hiroharu Yamashita, Yasuyuki Seto

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Hyperprogressive disease with immunotherapy: new directions

Sally C. M. Lau, Natasha B. Leighl

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Spread through air spaces in non-small cell lung cancer

Yuka Kozuma, Gouji Toyokawa, Yuichi Yamada, Fumihiro Shoji, Koji Yamazaki, Yoshinao Oda, Sadanori Takeo

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Is no drain after thoracoscopic major resection for cancer acceptable?

Katsuhiro Okuda, Katsuhiko Endo, Keisuke Yokota, Tsutomu Tatematsu, Ryoichi Nakanishi

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Expanding the pool: the use of hepatitis C RNA positive organs in lung transplantation

Ernest G. Chan, Patrick G. Chan, Pablo G. Sanchez

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Preoperative variables for predicting prolonged air leak following pulmonary resection

Yasushi Shintani, Soichiro Funaki, Naoko Ose, Takashi Kanou, Eriko Fukui, Masato Minami

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Challenge for establishment of international benchmarks for complications associated with esophagectomy

Masaaki Iwatsuki, Naoya Yoshida, Hideo Baba

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Safety of perioperative low dose aspirin therapy in major lung resection

Woo Sik Yu, Chang Young Lee

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No drain policy for “ultimate” enhanced recovery after surgery

Takuro Miyazaki, Takeshi Nagayasu

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Scar modification for polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation: hope beyond trigger ablation?

Hongtao Liao, Roderick Tung

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Blood tumor mutational burden: are we ready for clinical implementation?

Claude Van Campenhout, Bárbara Meléndez, Myriam Remmelink, Isabelle Salmon, Nicky D’Haene

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Local consolidative therapy in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer

Gunj Patel, Balazs Halmos, Haiying Cheng, Nitin Ohri

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Preoperative treatment of anemia—could an ultra-short-term multimodal approach be beneficial for patients undergoing lung surgery?

Sebastian Heinrich, Torsten Loop

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Optimal lung cancer screening intervals following a negative low-dose computed tomography result

Monica E. Reyes, Matthew B. Schabath

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The inadvertent compounding of misconceptions regarding the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation in mitral valve patients

James L. Cox, Patrick M. McCarthy

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Potential advantage of digital drainage systems using a low-suction approach after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy

Hiran C. Fernando

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The prospective database on thymic epithelial tumours from the European Continent

Masatsugu Hamaji, So Miyahara, Hyun-Sung Lee, Bryan M. Burt

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Increasing T stage is associated with the need for more extensive lymph node assessment in clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer

Andrew Brownlee, Seth B. Krantz

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What you do not know, you do not recognize…and you do not improve future patient care…particularly in extracorporeal life support (ECLS) patients

Roberto Lorusso, Domenico Corradi

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Hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: less is more

Pieter Christiaan van der Sluis, Peter Philipp Grimminger, Richard van Hillegersberg, Jelle Piet-Hein Ruurda

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Predicting spread through air spaces (STAS) preoperatively: can imaging help?

Rocio Perez Johnston, Katsura Emoto, Joseph Dux, William D. Travis, Prasad S. Adusumilli

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Expanding the donor pool for lung transplantation using HCV-positive donors

Hrishikesh S. Kulkarni, Kevin M. Korenblat, Daniel Kreisel

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Role of chest tube drainage in physical function after thoracoscopic lung resection

Pengfei Li, Shuangjiang Li, Guowei Che

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Hybrid esophagectomy: the best of both worlds

Jonathan Cools-Lartigue, Lorenzo Ferri

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Minimally invasive esophagectomy—behind patient-centered learning curves

Nikhil Panda, Christopher R. Morse

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PEEP titration guided by transpulmonary pressure: lessons from a negative trial

Fernando Suarez-Sipmann, Carlos Ferrando, Jesús Villar

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KEYNOTE-042 and the role for single agent pembrolizumab in patients with PD-L1 tumor proportion score 1–49%

Daniel Morgensztern

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Transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair in functional mitral regurgitation: patient selection according to MITRA-FR and COAPT

Martin Orban, Christian Hagl, Jörg Hausleiter

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Lactate guided resuscitation—nothing is more dangerous than conscientious foolishness

Paul E. Marik

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A new approach to predicting risk for N2 disease in non-small cell lung cancer

Roy H. Decker, Justin D. Blasberg

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Prolonged air leak after pulmonary lobectomy

Francesco Petrella, Lorenzo Spaggiari

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What did the first meta-analysis of tumor spread through air spaces (STAS) bring to light?

Hironori Uruga, Takeshi Fujii, Atsushi Miyamoto, Takaya Hisashi

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Prolonged air leaks after vats lobectomy: do we need another risk score?

Angelo Carretta

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Radical consolidative treatments a hope for patients with oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer

Marcelo F. Jimenez, Maria T. Gomez-Hernandez

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Intratumoral lymph vessel invasion as a predictive risk factor for nodal metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer: should L-1 status obligate adjuvant chemotherapy?

Kimberly J. Song, Raja M. Flores

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Demographic ageing and its influence on current lung transplant practice

Antonio Alvarez, Paula Moreno

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Searching for an arrow hitting two targets: the time to evaluate long-term outcomes of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy for early-stage lung cancer

Tomohito Saito, Tomohiro Murakawa

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Less is more: the benefits of low suction for digital pleural drainage devices after pulmonary resection

Stephen Donald Gowing, Virginia Ferreira Resende, Sebastien Gilbert

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Importance of intraoperative fluid management

Hisashi Iwata

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Thymoma: does tumor size matter?

Arya Amini, Chad G. Rusthoven

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Expanding the knowledge of oligometastatic disease—but uncertainties remain significant

Joachim Pfannschmidt

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Positive-end expiratory pressure titration and transpulmonary pressure: the EPVENT 2 trial

Emanuele Turbil, Louis Marie Galerneau, Nicolas Terzi, Carole Schwebel, Laurent Argaud, Claude Guérin

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Pancreatic PCSK9 and its involvement in diabetes

Maaike Kockx, Leonard Kritharides

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The radical approach to the oligometastatic not small cell lung cancer patient: which? how? when? where?

Luca Bertolaccini, Lorenzo Spaggiari

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Letter to the Editor

Chest ultrasound: enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) best friend in general thoracic surgery

Marco Chiappetta, Amedeo Iaffaldano, Leonardo Petracca Ciavarella, Elisa Meacci, Stefano Margaritora

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Is chest ultrasonography an essential tool for the modern thoracic surgeon?

Marco Chiappetta, Edoardo Zanfrini, Leonardo Petracca Ciavarella, Elisa Meacci, Stefano Margaritora

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Chest ultrasound versatility in routinary to complicated cases: our perspective

Marco Chiappetta, Gianmaria Ferretti, Maria Teresa Congedo, Maria Letizia Vita, Stefano Margaritora

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Sex differences in the development of upper airway morphology: is this the new kid on the block?

Ayako Inoshita, Takatoshi Kasai, Rina Matsuoka, Naoko Sata, Nanako Shiroshita, Fusae Kawana, Mitsue Kato, Katsuhisa Ikeda

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Emphysema assessment for personalized immunotherapy response prediction in lung cancer patients

Dimitra Kerdidani, Sophia Magkouta, Maria Tsoumakidou

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Albumin to fibrinogen ratio and fibrinogen to pre-albumin ratio are economical, simple and promising prognostic factors for solid malignancy

Shu-Qi Li, Xia-Hong You, Fan Sun, Zi-Jin Xia, Zhou Fang, Wei Wang, Yao Li, Xiao-Zhong Wang, Hou-Qun Ying

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Disclosure:

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