Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery right upper posterior segmentectomywith systemic mediastinal lymph node dissection.

abstract：Background:Pulmonary sequestration is a rare disease whose development begins in the embryonic stage. Surgery is the definitive treatment for eliminating respiratory symptoms and preventing complications. Reports of uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy and segmentectomy for pulmonary sequestr...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Lin TH,Huang WL,Chang CC,Yen YT,Lai WW,Tseng YL,Chen YY

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rejection is a major complication following lung transplantation. Acute cellular rejection, lymphocytic bronchiolitis, and antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) are all risk factors for the subsequent development of chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD). Acute cellular rejection and lymphocytic bronchiolitis have well...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Parulekar AD,Kao CC

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Surgical use of robots has evolved over the last 10 years. However, the academic experience with robotic lung segmentectomy remains limited. We aimed to analyze our lung segmentectomy experience with robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. METHODS:Prospectively recorded clinical data of 21 patients who underwe...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Toker A,Ayalp K,Uyumaz E,Kaba E,Demirhan O,Erus S

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathologic diagnosis of thymic tumors (TTs) can be made by surgical or nonsurgical procedures. About 20% of TTs had been diagnosed by pretreatment biopsy methods while the rest had gone to surgery for diagnosis and treatment. However, in the last two decades there was an increase in pretreatment procedures for optimal...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Bilaçeroğlu S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued the concept of the ventilator-associated events (VAEs) as a quality indicator (QI) in the intensive care unit (ICU). A number of studies have been conducted in the United States and other Western countries to evaluate its practicality. Howe...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Nakahashi S,Imai H,Imanaka H,Ohshimo S,Satou T,Shima M,Yanagisawa M,Yamashita C,Ogura T,Yamada T,Shime N

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) present increased mortality and poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL) as compared with the general population. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether an improvement in QoL after 1 year of proper management is a predictor of surviva...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Havlucu Y,Yorgancıoglu A,Sakar Coskun A,Celık P

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a common valve abnormality in general population. Despite the general belief of a benign disorder, several articles since the 1980s report sudden cardiac death (SCD) in MVP patients, with a substantial percentage of asymptomatic young individuals. The problem is to detect those patients ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Spartalis M,Tzatzaki E,Spartalis E,Athanasiou A,Moris D,Damaskos C,Garmpis N,Voudris V

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The analysis of lung artefacts has gained increasing importance as markers of lung pathology. B-line artefact (BLA), caused by a reverberation phenomenon, is the most important lung artefact. In this review, we discuss the current role of BLA in pneumology and explore open questions of the published consensu...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Dietrich CF,Mathis G,Blaivas M,Volpicelli G,Seibel A,Wastl D,Atkinson NS,Cui XW,Fan M,Yi D

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported the case of a 70-year-old man who was admitted to neurologic wards for recurrent syncope for 3 years. Unfortunately, just 2 hours after his admission, he suddenly collapsed and failed to return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) after a 100-minute standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Fortunately, h...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Wu JP,Gu DY,Wang S,Zhang ZJ,Zhou JC,Zhang RF

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of pectus excavatum has been estimated to be between 0.1% and 0.8% though a large autopsy series reports. After publication of the Nuss procedure for pectus excavatum, it became widely accepted. However, there are still some complications, such as over-correction and recurrence. To reduce differences in ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Matsuo N,Matsumoto K,Taura Y,Sakakibara Y,Taniguchi D,Takagi K,Yamane Y,Obatake M,Yamasaki N,Nagayasu T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The feasibility and practicality of preoperative rehabilitation (PR) programs remains quite controversial in the treatment of lung cancer (LC). This study explored whether a short-term high-intensity rehabilitation program could improve postoperative outcomes compared to those achieved with conventional insp...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Huang J,Lai Y,Zhou X,Li S,Su J,Yang M,Che G

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral lung nodule evaluation represents a clinical challenge. Given that many nodules will be incidentally found with lung cancer screening following the publication of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), the goal is to find an accurate, safe and minimally-invasive diagnostic modality to biopsy the concerni...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Arias S,Yarmus L,Argento AC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Aortic valve repair (AV-repair) is an alternative treatment option for patients with aortic regurgitation (AR), but durability is still reason for concern, especially for bicuspid aortic valves (BAV). We retrospectively evaluated mid-term results after AV-repair in patients with BAV or tricuspid aortic valve...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Prinzing A,Boehm J,Erlebach M,Sideris K,Lange R,Krane M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has without doubt been the most important advance in thoracic surgery. The general anesthesia before the tracheal intubation for VATS was often accompanied with tracheal mucosa and lung injuries, which were typically manifested as painful throat, nausea, vomiting, and other ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Wang L,Wang Y,Lin S,Yin P,Xu Y

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the recent decade, nonintubated-intubated video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has been extensively performed and evaluated. The indicated surgical procedures and suitable patient groups are steadily increasing. Perioperative anesthetic management presents itself as a fresh issue for the iatrogenic open pneu...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Yang JT,Hung MH,Chen JS,Cheng YJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arnold's nerve ear-cough reflex is recognised to occur uncommonly in patients with chronic cough. In these patients, mechanical stimulation of the external auditory meatus can activate the auricular branch of the vagus nerve (Arnold's nerve) and evoke reflex cough. This is an example of hypersensitivity of vagal affer...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Ryan NM,Gibson PG,Birring SS

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac amyloidosis is thought to be a rare group of diseases caused by extracellular deposition of misfolded proteins in the extracellular cardiac matrix resulting in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). This review focuses on the similarities and differences between the pathophysiology, clinical p...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Halatchev IG,Zheng J,Ou J

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The failure of mitral valve repair procedures revealed in the outcomes of the recent randomized studies is suggesting the necessity for a better understanding of the biomechanical mechanisms underlying the failure of the surgical approaches. Use of biomechanical modelling and finite element analysis (FEA) in cardiovas...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Fraldi M,Spadaccio C,Mihos CG,Nappi F

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a complex disease that results from genetic and environmental factors and their interactions. In recent years, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and family-based linkage analysis have found amounts of genetic variants associated with AF. Some of them lie in coding sequences and thus me...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Zhou M,Liao Y,Tu X

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Visceral pleural invasion (VPI) had been demonstrated as an aggressive sign in non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC). However, its incidence and clinical relevance in early lung cancer showing ground glass nodules (GGNs) has not been clarified. METHODS:All consecutive surgically treated patients with solitary...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Zhao LL,Xie HK,Zhang LP,Zha JY,Zhou FY,Jiang GN,Chen C

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case report illustrates a patient who underwent supra-annular mechanical aortic valve replacement then suffered from prosthesis dysfunction, increasing pressure gradient with aortic valve. She was successfully underwent aortic valve re-replacement, sub-annular pannus removing and aortic annulus enlargement proced...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Xu Y,Ye X,Li Z,Zhao Q

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is probably the most common respiratory disorder, with recent data from the United States and Europe suggesting that between 14% and 49% of middle-aged men have clinically significant OSA. The intimate relationship between OSA and obesity means that its prevalence will only increase as th...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Garvey JF,Pengo MF,Drakatos P,Kent BD

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary embolism (PE) by occlusion of the pulmonary arterial bed may lead to acute life-threatening but potentially reversible right ventricular failure, one of the most severe complications of thoracic surgery. Still, the incidence of acute pulmonary embolism after surgery is reduced by comprehensive anticoagulant ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Wang Z,Pei C,Ma L,Wang D,Zhou J,Wang W,Shen J,Xu Z,He J

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The bibliometric analysis has been performed on several topics in critical care medicine (CCM) focusing on top 100 cited articles, but the analysis on CCM literature as a whole is missing. The present study aimed to perform a complete bibliometric analysis in the field of CCM. Methods:An electronic search o...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Zhang Z,Van Poucke S,Goyal H,Rowley DD,Zhong M,Liu N

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) or surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) is a potential life threatening complication. Better understanding of the incidence, predictors, clinical presentation, diagnostic measures, complications and management of PVE may help ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Ahmad K,Klaaborg KE,Hjortdal V,Nørgaard BL,Terkelsen CJ,Jensen K,Christiansen EH,Terp KA,Andersen G,Hvitfeldt S,Andersen HR

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concomitant occurrence of atrial myxoma and esophageal carcinoma is an extremely rare entity. Here we present two cases of synchronously suffered left atrial myxoma and esophageal carcinoma. Both patients underwent simultaneous resection of two tumors via the right thoraco-abdominal approach and recovered well. ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Ni B,Lu X,Gong Q,Shao Y

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thoracic damage control surgery (TDCS) is a decision making tool and derivate of the damage control concept (DCC), where physiological stabilization has a priority over anatomical reconstruction under the pressure of time. Intrathoracic haemorrhage control and pleural decompression are the two main immediate tasks of ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Molnar TF

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mediastinal tuberculous lymphadenitis (MTL) is mostly seen in primary tuberculosis in children, uncommon observed in adults. It usually presents the toxic symptoms of tuberculosis but rarely with symptoms characteristic of esophageal compression, such as dysphagia. Such patients can easily be misdiagnosed ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Xiong L,Mao X,Li C,Liu Z,Zhang Z

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) is a rare, progressive and irreversible airway disease associated with significant mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT). In this study, we investigated the therapeutic effect of high-dose budesonide/formoterol (320/9 µg bid) in pati...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Kim KH,Lee J,Kim HJ,Lee S,Kim YJ,Lee JH,Rhee CK

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Although morphological abnormalities of the heart appear to be remarkable, most patients with tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC) remain clinically stable. We investigate real time changes in the left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) mechanics and function to explore the mechanism to preserve hemodyna...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Lei J,Sun Z,Lyu L,Green RG,Scalzetti E,Feiglin D,Wang J,Liu K

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00