We should ban the OPCAB approach in CABG, just as we should ban jetliners and bicycles, or maybe not!

abstract：:We present a case involving alveolar adenoma (AA) comprising a malignant component. An 83-year-old man was referred with a solitary pulmonary nodule, which was diagnosed as adenocarcinoma (AC) by transbronchial biopsy. Resected specimen after left S1+2 segmentectomy revealed that the tumor comprised two histologically...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Okada S,Ohbayashi C,Nishimura M,Abe K,Choh S,Shimada J,Inoue M

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central venous catheters (CVCs) have an important role in the management of critically ill patients. In contrast to the immediate complications after CVC insertion, the late complications were difficult to be noticed without high suspicion despite their life-threatening outcome. We report a rare but fatal delayed vasc...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Kim YJ,Kim WY

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations often develop systemic disease progression during treatment with EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). Droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) and amplification refractory mutation system ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Li Y,Xu Y,Wu X,He C,Liu Q,Wang F

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the surgical outcome of uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer performed by a surgeon who did not have previous experience performing open thoracotomy and multiportal VATS. Methods:From January 2017 to D...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Moon Y

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chest wall invasion is seen in 5% to 8% of patients presenting with lung cancer. We report a case of complete resection of a 14 cm × 9 cm pT3N0M0 squamous cell carcinoma arising from the right lower lobe and invading the lower chest wall posteriorly, in a 75 years old male, via a hybrid thoracoscopic [video-assisted t...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Caruana EJ,Solli P,Coonar AS

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory information arising from the airways is processed in a distributed brain network that encodes for the discriminative and affective components of the resultant sensations. These higher brain networks in turn regulate descending motor control circuits that can both promote or suppress behavioural responses. Here...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： McGovern AE,Ajayi IE,Farrell MJ,Mazzone SB

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:There is a lack of data regarding the incidence and associated factors of pneumothorax following thoracentesis conducted in emergency department (ED) settings. The present study aims to determine the incidence of pneumothorax following thoracentesis in ED settings and evaluate the association of specific dem...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Cho HY,Ko BS,Choi HJ,Koh CY,Sohn CH,Seo DW,Lee YS,Lee JH,Oh BJ,Lim KS,Kim WY

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) emerged as a minimally invasive surgery for diseases in the field of thoracic surgery. We herein reviewed our experience on thoracoscopic lobectomy for early lung cancer and evaluated Health System use. METHODS:A cost-effectiveness study was performed comparing VATS vs...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Mafé JJ,Planelles B,Asensio S,Cerezal J,Inda MD,Lacueva J,Esteban MD,Hernández L,Martín C,Baschwitz B,Peiró AM

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performing dual point 18F-FDG PET scans of solitary pulmonary nodules at an initial SUV (max) <2.5 is a useful technique. However, prolonging second image acquisition from 120 to 180 min does not appear to improve accuracy. Dual time 18F-FDG PET is not useful in differentiating benign and malignant pulmonary nodules w...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Khan AN,Al-Jahdali H

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic dyspnoea, or breathlessness for more than four weeks duration, is a common symptom in adults presenting to primary and tertiary care. It often presents a diagnostic challenge due to the wide spectrum of underlying disease, which is multifactorial in approximately one third of cases. Challenges in diagnosis inc...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Ferry OR,Huang YC,Masel PJ,Hamilton M,Fong KM,Bowman RV,McKenzie SC,Yang IA

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2017.10.107.]. ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Wang K,Xi W,Yang D,Zheng Y,Zhang Y,Chen Y,Yan C,Tian G,An S,Li X,An F,Du J,Hu K,Cao J,Ren L,Huang F,Gao Z

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To explore the incidences of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), obstructive ventilatory dysfunction, and obstructive small airway disease and their risk factors in a health check-up population, with an attempt to inform the early diagnosis and treatment of COPD. METHODS:Subjects who aged 20 years...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Xu G,Chen Z,Cao X,Wang Y,Yang P

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The subcategory "solid component of tumor" is a new criterion of tumor categories in the updated eighth edition of the TNM classification. Nevertheless, the predictors of lymph node metastasis among patients with clinical T1 adenocarcinoma, based on the TNM classification 8th edition, remain unclear. This st...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Nakahashi K,Tsunooka N,Hirayama K,Matsuno M,Endo M,Akahira J,Taguri M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related death throughout the world. Lung cancer is an example of a disease for which a large percentage of the high-risk population can be easily identified via a smoking history. This has led to the investigation of lung cancer screening with low-dose helical/multi-detector ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Wang YX,Lo GG,Yuan J,Larson PE,Zhang X

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is associated with many cardiovascular disorders. Chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) is the primary player in OSAS of the many associated factors. This study was in order to investigate the effects of the Adiponectin (Ad) on left ventricular remodeling induced by CIH. ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Ding WX,Dong YB,Ding N,Zhang XF,Zhang SJ,Zhang XL,Liu JN,Lu G

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is an inherited ciliary motility disorder caused by mutations in at least 40 genes. RSPH9 gene mutations encoding aberrant radial spoke head proteins have been linked with PCD. The clinical spectrum extent of RSPH9 gene mutations remains to date largely unknown. We aimed to d...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Yiallouros PK,Kouis P,Pirpa P,Michailidou K,Loizidou MA,Potamiti L,Kalyva M,Koutras G,Kyriacou K,Hadjisavvas A

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In previous study, we found elevated serum total lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) before correction of pectus excavatum and a decrease in total LDH after the deformity correction. In the present study, we analyzed total LDH activity and its isoenzyme patterns to investigate the causes of these laboratory findings...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Jeong SC,Kim JJ,Kim YH,Kim IS,Han JW

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germ cell tumors, like teratoma, typically occur in young adults in their second to fourth decade with equal sex distribution. We firstly report a very rare case of a huge tumor compressed the vital structures of the mediastinum that was diagnosed in a 21-year-old woman at 39 weeks of gestation during a routine prenat...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Yang M,Shen C,Du H,Wang Y,Che G

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) primarily affects the lungs but due to the accompanying chronic systematic inflammation and the symptoms associated with the disease there are many extrapulmonary effects which include complex physical and metabolic adaptations. These changes have been associated with reduc...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Collins PF,Yang IA,Chang YC,Vaughan A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The precise head to head relationships between Cardio-pulmonary exercise testing (CPET) parameters and patients' daily symptoms/activities and the disease social/emotional impact are less well defined. In this study, the correlation of COPD daily symptoms and quality of life [assessed by St. George's Respira...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Mirdamadi M,Rahimi B,Safavi E,Abtahi H,Peiman S

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last decades lung cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide for both sexes. Even though cigarette smoking has been proved to be the main causative factor, many other agents (e.g., occupational exposure to asbestos or heavy metals, indoor exposure to radon gas radiation, particulate air pollution) have ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Spyratos D,Zarogoulidis P,Porpodis K,Angelis N,Papaiwannou A,Kioumis I,Pitsiou G,Pataka A,Tsakiridis K,Mpakas A,Arikas S,Katsikogiannis N,Kougioumtzi I,Tsiouda T,Machairiotis N,Siminelakis S,Argyriou M,Kotsakou M,Kess

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy (ETS) has not been widely adopted for treating craniofacial hyperhidrosis (CFH) due to its known postoperative complication, compensatory hyperhidrosis (CH). In this study, we evaluated whether the autonomic nerve analysis data via pre-ETS heart rate variability (HRV) test c...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Moon DH,Kang DY,Lee HS,Lee JW,Lee YJ,Lee S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The recommended treatment duration for non-cavitary nodular bronchiectatic (NC-NB) Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) lung disease (LD) is at least 12 months after culture conversion, but evidence supporting this is limited. This study investigated whether treatment for less than 12 months after culture conve...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Park YE,Chong YP,Kim YJ,Kim OH,Kwon BS,Shim TS,Jo KW

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Castleman's disease (CD) is an uncommon benign lymphoproliferative disorder that usually presents as a single or multiple mediastinal mass. In unicentric CD, constitutional symptoms are rare, but are curable with surgical resection. However, serious intraoperative bleeding often requires conversion to thoracotomy. We ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Suh JH,Hong SH,Jeong SC,Park CB,Choi KB,Shin OR,Choi SY

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiopulmonary support is frequently required during lung transplantation. Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) has been recently shown to be an acceptable and, perhaps, safer alternative to cardiopulmonary bypass machine (CBM) for lung transplantation. However, therapeutic anticoagulation used...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Bharat A,DeCamp MM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) is highly associated with various clinical states. In the present study, we aimed to determine the natures of associations between RDW changes and early adverse events after isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Methods:We retrospectively analyzed medical r...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Lee SI,Lee SY,Choi CH,Park CH,Park KY,Son KH

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to its intrinsic characteristics, video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy is currently the recommended surgical approach for early stage lung cancer treatment. The importance of increasing the number of surgeons capable of performing VATS lobectomies is implicit and of utmost importance. In fact, the need...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Sandri A,Filosso PL,Lausi PO,Ruffini E,Oliaro A

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (V-A ECMO), a patient is cannulated using either an atrio-aortic technique (central type ECMO; cECMO) or a femoro-femoral technique (peripheral type ECMO; pECMO). The direction of the pump flow at the aortic arch is anterograde from the ascending aorta in ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Jeong SC,Kim HJ,Shin YS,Han JW,Lim JY,Son HS

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small cell lung cancer (SCLC), a particular neuroendocrine tumor, occupies 13% of lung cancers, with the highest mortality among cancers. Immune checkpoints inhibitors (ICIs) based on programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1)/programmed cell death one ligand (PD-L1) inhibitors and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protei...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Guo H,He Y,Chen P,Wang L,Li W,Chen B,Liu Y,Wang H,Zhao S,Zhou C

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:According to the present evidences suggesting association between low testosterone level and prediction of reduced exercise capacity as well as poor clinical outcome in patients with heart failure, we sought to determine if testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) improves clinical and cardiovascular condition...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Wang W,Jiang T,Li C,Chen J,Cao K,Qi LW,Li P,Zhu W,Zhu B,Chen Y

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00