Vol 16, No 8 (August 31, 2024) - Journal of Thoracic Disease

Editorial

Preface: why is the outcome good?—secrets of lung transplantation in Japan

Masaaki Sato

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Evolution of uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: optimization and advancements

Iris E. W. G. Laven, Koen C. H. A. Verkoulen, Aimée J. P. M. Franssen, Karel W. E. Hulsewé, Yvonne L. J. Vissers, Tomaž Štupnik, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Erik R. de Loos

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Original Article

The safety and effectiveness of the treatment of refractory post-intubation subglottic stenosis using short bronchial Dumon stent: a pilot study

Zuyuan Guo, Yongshun Ye, Yu Chen, Zhuquan Su, Weiquan Xiao, Liya Lu, Nanshan Zhong, Shiyue Li, Xiaobo Chen

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The causal effect of hot beverage temperature preference on esophageal cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization study

Mengyuan Zhu, Min Wei, Shan Huang, Xiaofen Pan

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Coronary artery bypass grafting vs. drug-eluting stent implantation: the probabilities of reintervention, transition to severe care-need, nursing home, and death in patients with coronary artery disease within the first three years: evaluations based on health claims data in Germany

Daniela Georges, Daniel Kreft, Gabriele Doblhammer

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Bone morphogenetic protein 4 ameliorates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice by repressing NLRP3 inflammasome activation and epithelial-mesenchymal transition

Xin Xu, Liang Yuan, Xiao Hu, Jingpei Li, Huihui Wu, Fang Chen, Fei Huang, Weiguo Kong, Wei Liu, Jingyi Xu, You Zhou, Yunhan Zou, Yi Shen, Ruijuan Guan, Jianxing He, Wenju Lu

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Blood urea nitrogen-to-albumin ratio independently predicts 30-day mortality in acute respiratory failure patients: a retrospective cohort study

Qiang Xiao, Quan Zhou, Wei Shen, Susu Dong, Yafen Tan, Xuan Zhang, Lu Yao, Qiuping Li, Zuoan Qin, Tianli Wang

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Microbiological confirmation of tuberculous pleurisy with medical thoracoscopy: targeted pleural washing and pleural biopsy

Yu Jin Hong, Hyung Woo Kim, Yun Seok Kim, Kyung Hoon Kim, Ah Young Shin, Joon Young Choi, Joong Hyun Ahn, Ju Sang Kim, Jick Hwan Ha

PDF Pages: 4904-4913 Full Text (341) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Deep learning to predict long-term mortality from plain chest X-ray in patients referred for suspected coronary artery disease

Giuseppe D’Ancona, Mattia Savardi, Mauro Massussi, Viktor Van Der Valk, Roderick W. C. Scherptong, Alberto Signoroni, Davide Farina, Monica Murero, Hüseyin Ince, Stefano Benussi, Salvatore Curello, Fatih Arslan

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The clinical characteristics associated with the ratio between the main pulmonary artery and ascending aorta diameter in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Jae-Kyeong Lee, Bo-Gun Kho, Joon-Young Yoon, Chang-Seok Yoon, Young-Ok Na, Ha-Young Park, Tae-Ok Kim, Yong-Soo Kwon, Yu-Il Kim, Sung-Chul Lim, Hong-Joon Shin

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Machine learning models from computed tomography to diagnose thymic epithelial tumors requiring combined resection

Yuki Onozato, Hidemi Suzuki, Hiroki Matsumoto, Takamasa Ito, Takayoshi Yamamoto, Kazuhisa Tanaka, Yuichi Sakairi, Yukiko Matsui, Takekazu Iwata, Tomohiko Iida, Toshihiko Iizasa, Ichiro Yoshino

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Prognostic efficacy of non-invasive ventilation in patients with overlap syndrome: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and obstructive sleep apnea

Yang Gao, Zhengyang Fan, Hehe Zhang, Yuanni Jiao, Naima Covassin, Fei Li, Jiang Xie

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The consistently up-regulated expression of NLRP3 in severe asthma patients from mRNA microarray and ovalbumin-induced mouse model of asthma

Xiaowen Chen, Fang Wang, Jinle Lin, Shaohua Luo, Zhongpeng Li, Jian Wu

PDF Pages: 4957-4966 Full Text (394) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Efficacy and safety of early prone position in postoperative cardiac surgery adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome: a single-center retrospective cohort study

Longxiang Su, Jing Zhang, Hua Zhao, Zunzhu Li, Hongbo Luo, Jianzhou Liu, Qi Miao, Haibo Deng, Na Cui, Huaiwu He, Wenzhao Chai, Yun Long

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Impact of bilateral mediastinal lymph node dissection on pulmonary function during the early postoperative period after curative-intent lung surgery for cancer: a randomized study

Łukasz Trybalski, Jakub Szadurski, Jarosław Kużdżał, Aleksander Galas, Mirosław Janczura, Janusz Warmus, Katarzyna Żanowska, Piotr Kocoń

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Assessment of needle-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (nCLE) as a tool for real-time diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer

Joseph Seitlinger, Florent Stasiak, Arthur Streit, Christophe Wollbrett, Joelle Siat, Lucie Schnedecker, Guillaume Gauchotte, Stéphane Renaud

PDF Pages: 4986-4993 Full Text (687) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Long-term effect of corticosteroid treatment during acute COVID-19 infection on pulmonary function test results

Liora Boehm Cohen, Yael Raviv, Walid Shalata, Michael Kasirer, Anat Reiner Benaim

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Effects of liver X receptor in O3-induced airway inflammation and remodeling in mice

Fenfang Yu, Jiyong Ma, Ke Xu, Yu Tang, Bining Wu, Wei Gu, Ying Shi

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Comparison of four aortic bioprostheses: Hancock II vs. St Jude Trifecta vs. Carpentier-Edwards Perimount Magna vs. Magna Ease—mid-term results (COMPARE SAVR study)

Natalia Bajorek, Grzegorz Filip, Krzysztof Malinowski, Anna Kędziora, Piotr Mazur, Krithika Ramaprabhu, Krzysztof Bartuś, Jakub Batko, Daniel J. Rams, Marek Deja, Kazimierz Widenka, Zdzisław Tobota, Bohdan J. Maruszewski, Marian Burysz, Radoslaw Litwinowicz

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Exploring the impact of variable power outputs on the efficacy and safety during microwave ablation for lung carcinoma: a real-world study

Song-Ping Cui, Qing Zhao, Jing Wang, Ying Ji, Jin-Bai Miao, Yi-Li Fu, Bin Hu, Shuo Chen

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Using an organizational change model to improve lung cancer surgery services over five years

Hasanali David Walji, Eduardo Martin, Thomas Brookes, Steven Aaron Ellis, Maria Kolokotroni, Luis Hernandez, Antonio Martin-Ucar

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Contrasting predictors of severe primary graft dysfunction following transplant for chronic and acute respiratory failure

Chitaru Kurihara, Taisuke Kaiho, Benjamin Thomae, Emily Cerier, Kalvin Lung, Diego Avella Patino, Takahide Toyoda, Yuanqing Yan, G. R. Scott Budinger, Ankit Bharat

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Additional benefit of endoscopic ultrasound with bronchoscope-guided fine needle aspiration to endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration in the evaluation of lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Jonghoo Lee, Jae-Uk Song

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The predictive value of serum fibrinogen and platelet distribution width for long-term cardiac death in acute myocardial infarction patients

Zhen-Fa Zhou, Cui-Fen Hu, Mei-Fang Gao, Xian Jin, Yu Chen, Di Wang, Cheng-Xing Shen, Liang Liu

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Effectiveness of multi-disciplinary team management on 5-year overall survival for patients with stage III lung cancer

Camilla Valsecchi, Andrea Franza, Giorgio Bogani, Luigi Rolli, Michele Ferrari, Giovanni Leuzzi, Alessia Stanzi, Federica Sabia, Ugo Pastorino, Arsela Prelaj

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Clinical analysis of progressive destroyed lung after lung cancer surgery

Takahiro Iida, Masaaki Sato, Takeshi Fukami

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Intraoperative nitrous oxide inhalation to prevent chronic postsurgical pain in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a prospective observational cohort study

Yuchen Yuan, Le Zhang, Yuelun Zhang, Le Shen, Yuguang Huang

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Intratumoral and peritumoral radiomics combined with computed tomography features for predicting the invasiveness of lung adenocarcinoma presenting as a subpleural ground-glass nodule with a consolidation-to-tumor ratio ≤50%

Yun Wang, Deng Lyu, Dan Yu, Su Hu, Yanqing Ma, Wenjun Huang, Shaofeng Duan, Taohu Zhou, Wenting Tu, Xiuxiu Zhou, Yi Xiao, Li Fan, Shiyuan Liu

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Impact of imaging features on selecting limited lymph node resection for cT1N0M0 lung cancer

Hua He, Wenteng Hu, Changsheng Yi, Shuo Sun, Yu Zhou, Xiaofei Zeng, Quan Zhang, Ruijiang Lin, Peng Yue, Minjie Ma, Chang Chen

PDF Pages: 5138-5151 Full Text (328) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

The prognostic analysis and a machine-learning based disease-specific survival state model in pulmonary large-cell neuroendocrine carcinomas

Xiongye Xu, Baomo Liu, Yan Su, Peixin Dong, Shuaishuai Wang, Jiating Deng, Ziying Lin, Lixia Huang, Shaoli Li, Jincui Gu, Yanbin Zhou

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Image quality and detection efficacy of zero echo time magnetic resonance imaging on Lung-RADS 2 pulmonary ground-glass nodules in comparison to thin-slice fat-saturated T2-weighted imaging

Qiao Zou, Qi Wan, Jieqiong Liu, Weiyin Vivian Liu, Ruolin Ding, Hanzhen Fang, Hongyan Liu, Xinchun Li, Changhong Liang

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High frequency of GATA2 variants in patients with pulmonary fungal disease without immunocompromised risk factors: a retrospective study

Yongxun Zhuansun, Peng He, Yumo Du, Lin Lin, Rui Chen, Jianguo Li

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Correlation of sputum inflammatory markers with severity and blood inflammatory markers in bronchiectasis

Wang Chun Kwok, Kui Kai Lau, Kay Cheong Teo, James Chung Man Ho

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Impact of perioperative fluid overload on the occurrence of postoperative pulmonary complications following lobectomy

Huan Liu, Yue Shao, Jun Luo

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Effects of the teach-back method on the health status of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a real-world community-based cluster-randomized controlled trial

Pan Zhang, Yanan Zhu, Yixuan Wang, Wenhui Zhang, Cheng Qiao, Heqing Lou, Yanan Liu, Dongmei Dong, Xuan Zhu, Bi Chen

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The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index as a prognostic factor in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors with non-small-cell lung cancer

Shuai Jiang, An Yang, Fuzhi Yang, Xunxia Zhu, Xiaoyu Chen, Zheng Li, Yuanshan Yao, Shangwei Xu, Zhengyao Yang, Nianping Mo, Gang Zhong, Weiting Bai, Liting Zhao, Xuelin Zhang, Xiaoyong Shen

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Risk factors and prognostic modeling in bridging extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients before lung transplantation

Shaoxiang Li, Sheng Chen, Zipeng Wang, Ce Zhao, Hanqun Liu, Wenjie Jiao

PDF Pages: 5238-5247 Full Text (291) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Branched-chain amino acids and risk of lung cancer: insights from mendelian randomization and NHANES III

Zongyuan Li, Jianqi Hao, Tengyong Wang, Chenglin Guo, Lunxu Liu

PDF Pages: 5248-5261 Full Text (774) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Clinical characteristics and microbial signatures in the lower airways of diabetic and nondiabetic patients with pneumonia

Xuefei Liu, Qianqian Zhao, Xiangyan He, Jiumeng Min, Rosary Sin Yu Yao, Zhonglin Chen, Jinmin Ma, Weiting Hu, Jingwen Huang, Huanying Wan, Yi Guo, Min Zhou

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Prognostic prediction model for patients with pathological T1N0 stage esophageal squamous cell carcinoma undergone esophagectomy

Qing Liu, Yue Li, Zhong-Feng Yan, Xi Luo, Xiao-Guang Guo, Shun-Hai Jian, Yin-Bin Zheng, Hai-Ning Zhou, Kai-Yuan Jiang, Dong Tian

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20 years clinical application of the vacuum bell for conservative treatment of pectus excavatum—past, present, future

Frank-Martin Haecker

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Contribution of fluorescence imaging to thoracoscopic anatomical segmentectomy: a multicenter propensity matching analysis

Feng Wu, Xinlu Tao, Ansheng Wang, Qiao Ge, Savvas Lampridis, Giulio Maurizi, Stefano Bongiolatti, Boon-Hean Ong, Dongchun Ma, Baoming Wang

PDF Pages: 5299-5313 Full Text (414) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Retrospective analysis of the drug-coated balloon-only strategy for chronic total occlusion coronary lesions

Peng Li, Hongfei Li, Yalin Cheng, Xuyang Meng, Chenguang Yang, Huimin Li, Fusui Ji, Wenduo Zhang

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N-acetylcysteine, a small molecule scavenger of reactive oxygen species, alleviates cardiomyocyte damage by regulating OPA1-mediated mitochondrial quality control and apoptosis in response to oxidative stress

Junyi Zheng, Lili Zhao, Yuanyuan Liu, Mengying Chen, Xukun Guo, Jixiang Wang

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Neoadjuvant camrelizumab followed by concurrent camrelizumab plus chemotherapy for locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: a single-arm, phase II study

Yinliang Sheng, Xiangrui Meng, Chunyang Zhang, Zhengzheng Shan, Feng Li, Bin Wu, Mengli Xu, Aijia Li, Lulu Guan, Lidong Chen, Shuzhen Sun, Yihui Ma, Taiying Lu, Song Zhao, Qingxia Fan, Yu Qi, Feng Wang

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Prognostic value of baseline clinicopathological characteristics in first-line chemotherapy ± immunotherapy for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer: a retrospective cohort study

Yili Wu, Jiankui Ye, Zhuowei Shao, Antonio Rossi, Yu Chen, You Li, Shibo Wu

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Anoikis-related subtype and prognosis analyses based on bioinformatics, and an expression verification of ANGPTL4 based on experiments of lung adenocarcinoma

Xiaojian Shen, Jing Xie, Shu Liu, Yun Cai, Shen Yuan, Yuji Uehara, Dongbing Zhu, Miaosen Zheng

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Case Series

Efficacy and tolerability of osimertinib with dabrafenib and trametinib in BRAF V600E acquired EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer: a case series

Kevin Lu, Victoria Tse, Ghaith Altaie, Hatim Husain

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Study Protocol

Effect on post-operative pulmonary complications frequency of high flow nasal oxygen versus standard oxygen therapy in patients undergoing esophagectomy for cancer: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial—OSSIGENA study

Cristian Deana, Massimo Vecchiato, Danila Azzolina, Stefano Turi, Annalisa Boscolo, Elisa Pistollato, Stefano Skurzak, Ombretta Amici, Simone Priolo, Simone Tonini, Lorenzo Santo Foti, Erika Taddei, Paola Aceto, Antonio Martino, Antonio Ziccarelli, Lorenzo Cereser, Simonetta Andreutti, Stefano De Carlo, Kevin Lirussi, Federico Barbariol, Gianmaria Cammarota, Enrico Polati, Francesco Forfori, Francesco Corradi, Vincenzo Patruno, Paolo Navalesi, Salvatore Maurizio Maggiore, Francesca Lucchese, Roberto Petri, Flavio Bassi, Stefano Romagnoli, Elena Giovanna Bignami, Luigi Vetrugno; Ossigena Study Group

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Review Article

Treatment of traumatic rib fractures: an overview of current evidence and future perspectives

Aimée J. P. M. Franssen, Jean H. T. Daemen, Julien A. Luyten, Berry Meesters, Annette M. Pijnenburg, Kostan W. Reisinger, Raoul van Vugt, Karel W. E. Hulsewé, Yvonne L. J. Vissers, Erik R. de Loos

PDF Pages: 5399-5408 Full Text (1047) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

State of the art: peripheral diagnostic bronchoscopy

Eric T. Sumner, Jiwoon Chang, Pranjal R. Patel, Harmeet Bedi, Brian D. Shaller

PDF Pages: 5409-5421 Full Text (484) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Robotic-assisted bronchoscopy: a narrative review of systems

Sebastian Fernandez-Bussy, Nikitha C. Chandra, Anoop Koratala, Alejandra Yu Lee-Mateus, Alanna Barrios-Ruiz, Ana Garza-Salas, Tapendra Koirala, Rodrigo Funes-Ferrada, Prasanth Balasubramanian, Neal M. Patel, Ryan Chadha, Britney N. Hazelett, Kelly S. Robertson, Janani Reisenauer, David Abia-Trujillo

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