Vol 15, No 12 (December 30, 2023) - Journal of Thoracic Disease

Hikaru Watanabe, Hiroki Ebana, Naoki Kanauchi, Jun Suzuki, Hideki Ujiie, Masato Chiba, Kaito Sato, Soumei Matsuo, Kazumasa Hoshijima, Aki Kobayashi, Satoshi Shiono

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A simple prediction score for postoperative mortality after decortication

Konstantinos A. Zorbas, Abbas El-Sayed Abbas, Kimberly J. Song, Ilias A. Zorbas, William Lois, Joshua H. Burack

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Pleural fluid soluble Fas ligand and tuberculous pleural effusion: a prospective diagnostic test accuracy study

Xu-Hui Wen, Jian-Xun Wen, Lan Mu, Xi-Shan Cao, Li Yan, Jin-Hong Huang, Hong Chen, Ting-Wang Jiang, Zhi-De Hu, Yan Niu, Wen-Qi Zheng

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A predictive model for frequent exacerbator phenotype of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Yan Zhang, Shu-Ping Zheng, Yang-Fan Hou, Xue-Yan Jie, Dan Wang, Hong-Ju Da, Hong-Xin Li, Jin He, Hong-Yan Zhao, Jiang-Hao Liu, Yu Ma, Zhi-Hui Qiang, Wei Li, Ming Zhang, Hu Shan, Yuan-Yuan Wu, Hong-Yang Shi, Liang Zeng, Xin Sun, Yun Liu

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A novel localization device for small pulmonary nodules in thoracoscopic wedge resection with adequate margin distance: a retrospective study

Weibin Wu, Xiaojun Li, Yonghui Wu, Kai Zhang, Jiannan Xu, Jian Zhang, Huiguo Chen

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Compliance and rehabilitation effects of Zheng’s supine rehabilitation exercise performed at home among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a retrospective study

Ni Liu, Wenying Wu, Zhuqiao Chen, Jieying Hu, Feng Yang, Zhou Yu, Rongchang Chen, Zeguang Zheng, Yinhuan Li

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Efficacy of platinum-based adjuvant chemotherapy for epidermal growth factor receptor-mutant lung adenocarcinoma

Ken Onodera, Isao Yokota, Yuki Matsumura, Kazuki Hayasaka, Satoshi Shiono, Jiro Abe, Hirotsugu Notsuda, Akira Sakurada, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Yoshinori Okada

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Inhaled medications for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease predict surgical complications and survival in stage I non-small cell lung cancer

Steven Tohmasi, Daniel B. Eaton Jr, Brendan T. Heiden, Nikki E. Rossetti, Valerio Rasi, Su-Hsin Chang, Yan Yan, Deepika Gopukumar, Mayank R. Patel, Bryan F. Meyers, Benjamin D. Kozower, Varun Puri, Martin W. Schoen

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Asbestos burden in lungs of non-occupationally exposed women from Broni (Pavia, Italy): a postmortem SEM-EDS study

Silvia Damiana Visonà, Silvana Capella, Paola Borrelli, Simona Villani, Cristina Favaron, Zhyldyz Kurzhunbaeva, Claudio Colosio, Elena Belluso

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The efficacy and safety of radial endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial lung cryobiopsy in the diagnosis of lung disease

Li Yang, Sheng Bi, Guang Wei, Dongmei Yu, Hai Wang, Jiawei Dong, Hao Wang, Ye Gu

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Trends in the management and outcomes of esophageal perforations among racial-ethnic groups

Jenny Bui, Michael Hendrickson, Chris B. Agala, Paula D. Strassle, Benjamin Haithcock, Jason Long

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Derivation and external validation of a nomogram predicting the occurrence of severe illness among hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 patients: a 2020 Chinese multicenter retrospective study

Yun Feng, Luyu Yang, Zenghui Cheng, Jian Li

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Survival following acute type A aortic dissection: a multicenter study

Francesco Nappi, Ivancarmine Gambardella, Sanjeet Singh Avtaar Singh, Antonio Salsano, Francesco Santini, Cristiano Spadaccio, Fausto Biancari, Joaquin Dominguez, Antonio Fiore

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Women in thoracic, cardiac and vascular surgery claim for a change in the working situation: an Italian national survey

Sara Parini, Danila Azzolina, Daniela Lucidi, Daunia Verdi, Ilaria Ceccarelli, Sabrina Manganiello, Annalisa Francescato, Michela Parise, Ilaria Peluttiero, Elisa Sicolo, Cecilia Pompili, Gaya Spolverato

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Etiology, diagnostic modalities, and short-term outcomes of hemoptysis—a retrospective cross-sectional study from a tertiary care center in Qatar

Shakeel Ahmed, Mansoor Hameed, Mustafa Al-Tikriti, Khaled Elfert, Mousa Hussein, Mutaz Albakri, Rajvir Singh, Irfan Ul Haq, Mushtaq Ahmad, Merlin Thomas

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Clinical outcomes of fluoroquinolones combination therapy in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia: a retrospective cohort study using national health insurance claims data in Korea

Bo-Guen Kim, Danbee Kang, Kyung Hoon Min, Juhee Cho, Kyeongman Jeon

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Causal effect of beta-blockers on the risk of lung cancer: a Mendelian randomization study

Yi Lu, Jiachun Luo, Zhenyu Huo, Fan Ge, Yang Chen, Ying Chen, Qing Zhang, Caichen Li, Jinhui Wang, Jiayu Gan, Ziqiu Cheng, Yangbin Li, Yi Feng, Qiyuan Hu, Jianxing He, Wenhua Liang

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Impact of guideline therapy on survival of patients with stage I–III epithelioid mesothelioma

Douglas Z. Liou, Yoyo Wang, Prasha Bhandari, Joseph B. Shrager, Natalie S. Lui, Leah M. Backhus, Mark F. Berry

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Objective improvement in dexterity for trainees undergoing a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery simulation program, a prospective single center study

Evangelos Koliakos, Etienne Abdelnour, Arpad Hasenauer, Celine Forster, Amaya Ojanguren, Hans-Beat Ris, Michel Gonzalez, Thorsten Krueger, Jean Y. Perentes

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Risk of reactive cutaneous capillary endothelial proliferation induced by camrelizumab in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: a retrospective study

Xuan He, Jie Fang, Ping Yu, Weiting Hu, Qiurui Zhang, Ze Zhang, Min Zhou, Xiaofei Wang, Xiaolan Bian

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Risk factors for venous thromboembolism in patients with pneumonia in the pre-COVID-19 era: a meta-analysis and systematic review

Feiya Xu, Linfeng Xi, Yuzhi Tao, Jixiang Liu, Dingyi Wang, Zhu Zhang, Shuai Zhang, Qian Gao, Zhenguo Zhai

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Knockdown of Slfn5 alleviates lipopolysaccharide-induced pneumonia by regulating Janus kinase/signal transduction and activator of transcription pathway

Shunying Wang, Li Li, Wenming Wang

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An early single-center experience with the Relay double inner-branch arch endograft

Cristóbal Iglesias Iglesias, Carmen González Canga, Francisco Abril Ramiro, Alba Alonso Pastor, Francisco Álvarez Marcos, Manuel Alonso Pérez

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Early stroke after left ventricular assist device implantation: role of right heart failure

Ilkun Park, Jeong Hoon Yang, Darae Kim, Jin-Oh Choi, Eun-Seok Jeon, Kiick Sung, Wook Sung Kim, Yang Hyun Cho

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Lung transplantation for emphysema: only emphysema or something else?

Víctor Manuel Mora-Cuesta, Laura Sánchez-Moreno, David Iturbe-Fernández, Elena Pérez-Barquín, Sandra Tello-Mena, Pilar Alonso-Lecue, Sheila Izquierdo-Cuervo, Sara Naranjo-Gozalo, José Manuel Cifrián-Martínez, José Javier Gómez-Román

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The prognosis of preoperative preemptive intubation for acute type A aortic dissection patients: a retrospective propensity score matching study

Wei Zhou, Zhen Du, Qi-Xing Wang, Yang Liu, Lin Han, Zhi-Yun Xu, Shao-Lin Ma, Bai-Ling Li

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Neoadjuvant sintilimab plus chemotherapy for locally advanced resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a prospective, single-arm, phase II clinical trial (CY-NICE)

Yuzhen Chen, Meiyu Ren, Bin Li, Yuqi Meng, Cheng Wang, Peng Jiang, Tieniu Song, Jianbao Yang, Duojie Zhu, Qiyao Yu

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A retrospective analysis of prognostic factors and treatment choices in small cell lung cancer with liver metastasis

Shuang Zhang, Yansu Wang, Shuang Li, Yang Liu, Ying Cheng

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Adhesion is a risk factor for postoperative recurrence of spontaneous pneumothorax

Nozomu Motono, Takaki Mizoguchi, Masahito Ishikawa, Shun Iwai, Yoshihito Iijima, Hidetaka Uramoto

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Genomic profiling of relapsed small cell lung cancer reveals potential pathways of therapeutic targets

Wen Ouyang, Jing Yu, Zihang Zeng, Jun Gong, Junhong Zhang, Conghua Xie

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Effect of quantitative parameters of contrast-enhanced ultrasound on the long-term prognosis of patients with chronic coronary syndrome

Jia Li, Chunyan Ma, Haixia Sun, Fang Li, Yao She, Tianhong Yi

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Therapeutic effects of multidisciplinary individualized treatment for COVID-19 patients: the experience of a supporting medical team in Wuhan

Jianrong Liu, Xiaofeng Yuan, Qing Yang, Xiaogang Bi, Xinhua Li, Huawei Bian, Ke Sun, Xianling Zhang, Yang Yang

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Effect of high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy in combination with non-invasive ventilation on critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure: a retrospective study

Zhiping Xu, Lingxia Zhu, Jingye Zhan, Hui Feng, Cristian Deana, Luigi Vetrugno, Lijun Liu, Juan Lu

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The molecular mechanism of sepsis-induced diaphragm dysfunction

Xiaosa Yuan, Fangsu Xue, Yunchi Yu, Xiaowen Cao, Yimin Han, Fei Wang, Lou Zhong

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Feasibility study of using low-kilovoltage, prospective gating, high-pitch, dual-source computed tomography prior to transcatheter aortic valve replacement: analysis of image quality and radiation dose

Yanhe Ma, Bo Fu, Anhong Yu, Yapeng Yang, Prabhakar Shantha Rajiah, Hong Zhang

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Importance of timing and training to implement awake prone positioning in patients with COVID-19: a single-center prospective observational study

Dong-Fang Zhao, Lei Xue, Xiao-Shu Zhou, Wei-Yi Jin, Yu-Jie Zhou, Su-Mei Tong, Pan-Feng Wang, Yu-Xuan Li, Roberto Piro, Hong-Mei Qiao, Gui-Xiang Yu, Chun-Yan Su, Bao-Hua Li

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Right middle pulmonary vein classification by 3D-CT reconstruction and its clinical significance

Wenwei Wei, Hang Zhou, Hao He, Hui Lin, Yasmeen K. Tandon, Timothy J. Jaykel, Xiaofeng Chen, Pei-Yuan Wang, Shuo-Yan Liu, Feng Wang

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Branching patterns and variations of the bronchus and blood vessels in the superior segment of the right lower lobe: a three-dimensional computed tomographic bronchography and angiography study

Shusheng Zhu, Wenzheng Xu, Zhihua Li, Weibing Wu, Alessandro Brunelli, Yosuke Matsuura, Giulio Maurizi, Davide Tosi, Ilies Bouabdallah, Dominique Gossot, Liang Chen

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Factors influencing surgical choice and anxiety in patients with pulmonary nodules smaller than 8 mm

Hongbin Qiu, Yingqiao Lou, Zimin Wang, Fenglai Xue, Zhongxiao Chen, Congcong Xu, Pasan Witharana, Dong Chen, Kanghao Zhu, Jiawei Li, Baofu Chen, Satoshi Fumimoto, Samy Lachkar, Jimmy T. Efird, Chengchu Zhu, Jianfei Shen

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Mechanistic analysis of Th2-type inflammatory factors in asthma

Yingjiao Qin, Chang Liu, Qi Li, Xiangdong Zhou, Jie Wang

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Retrospective cohort study on the correlation analysis among peri-procedural factors, complications, and local tumor progression of lung tumors treated with CT-guided microwave ablation

Liming Zhu, Jiaxi Huang, Chunhui Jin, Acheng Zhou, Ying Chen, Baonan Zhang, Federico Venuta, Bradley B. Pua, Yehua Shen

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Development and validation of a DNA damage repair-related gene-based prediction model for the prognosis of lung adenocarcinoma

Chu Qin, Xiaodong Fan, Xiaoyan Sai, Bo Yin, Shufang Zhou, Alfredo Addeo, Tao Bian, Haoda Yu

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Systematic analysis of apoptosis-related genes in the prognosis of lung squamous cell carcinoma: a combined single-cell RNA sequencing study

Peiquan Zhu, Wenxing Yang, Biao Wang, Tao Zeng, Zhi Hu, Dengguo Zhang, Ze Yang, Kaiqiang Wang, Jiangtao Pu

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Combination of the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio and fibrinogen may predict 5-year overall survival of patient in non-small cell lung cancer treated with surgery

Yiping Luo, Kangni Lin, Mingji Zhang, Taichiro Goto, Wolfgang M. Brueckl, Jingping Lin, Xinwei Liu, Jinsen Weng, Yong Ye

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Long-term clinical outcomes and prognosis after definitive radiotherapy for patients with cervical esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a single-institution retrospective study

Shumin Zhang, Jing Sun, Xiangou Pan, Jae Y. Kim, Wenchao Zhu, Yongkang Zhou

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Expression and significance of serum KL-6 in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome

Luqing Han, Shuai Wang, Jialin Ma, Zhongyan Zhao

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Transcription factor-target gene regulatory network analysis in human lung adenocarcinoma

Fang Huang, Fangsu Xue, Qing Wang, Yuchen Huang, Zixin Wan, Xiaowen Cao, Lou Zhong

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Dissecting the genetic variations associated with response to first-line chemotherapy in patients with small cell lung cancer: a retrospective cohort study

Yalei Zhang, Yan Hao, Hui Pan, Hongbo Zheng, Jiaqi Zhou

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Review Article

Development of the dipeptidyl peptidase 4 family and its association with lung diseases: a narrative review

Ershi Hua, Dongmei Xu, Huamao Chen, Shuwen Zhang, Jian Feng, Liqin Xu

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Image-guided video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (iVATS): a single center experience and review

Fatemehsadat Pezeshkian, Miles McAllister, Anupama Singh, Michael T. Jaklitsch, Ritu R. Gill, Raphael Bueno, Antonio Coppolino

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Intra-operative anesthetic induced myocardial protection during cardiothoracic surgery: a literature review

Abey S. Abraham, Connor W. Elliott, Matthew S. Abraham, Sanchit Ahuja

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Advances of cell therapy in lung cancer: a narrative review

Lu Lv, Wenyan Chen, Na Chen, Enhai Cui

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Chest wall reconstruction after the Clagett procedure and other types of open-window thoracostomy: a narrative review

Alieske Kleeven, Seth Rianna P. van der Hel, Yasmine M. J. Jonis, Jairo J. A. Profar, Jean H. T. Daemen, Erik R. de Loos, René R. W. J. van der Hulst, Shan Shan Qiu

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Chest wall reconstruction, prosthesis and allografts: a narrative review

Paolo Nicola Camillo Girotti, Fabrizio Bianchi

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Surgical approaches for thoracic outlet decompression in the treatment of thoracic outlet syndrome

Stijn B. J. Teijink, Jens Goeteyn, Niels Pesser, Bart F. L. van Nuenen, Robert W. Thompson, Joep A. W. Teijink

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Study Protocol

Individualised monitoring programme for pulmonary rehabilitation of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease—study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Zhenjie Yu, Jingchun He, Jie Wu, Xia Di, Xiaohui Wang, Ming Dong, Qi Li, Lili Yu, Jun Liu, Lan Wang

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Case Series

Modified silicone hourglass stents for the treatment of benign subglottic stenosis: a case series

Liran Zhang, Cuixia Bian

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Brief Report

Mechanisms of limitation of oxygen delivery during veno-venous extracorporal membrane oxygenation

Johannes Heymer, Anna Hein, Matthias Ott, Tobias Schilling, Daniel Räpple

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Transbronchial cryobiopsy using an ultrathin cryoprobe with a guide sheath for the diagnosis of pulmonary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma

Hitomi Nogawa, Hiroki Suzuki, Hiroki Ota, Yuta Kanno, Sosuke Kume, Yusuke Agatsuma, Norio Katsuno, Sayuri Momosaki, Takafumi Aizawa, Sachie Nawa, Mari Aso, Toshihiko Hino

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Case Report: iMDT Corner

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement in the management of aortic insufficiency secondary to left ventricular assist device implantation: a case report

Xiaodong Wang, Yujie Lu, Zhigang Liu, Antonino S. Rubino, Bartlomiej Perek, Daniel Wendt, Calogera Pisano, Guillaume Goudot, Oliver Deutsch, Xiaocheng Liu

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