Late cardiac tamponade following Nuss procedure for pectus excavatum.

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journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Alfonso F,García-Guimaraes M,Bastante T,de la Cuerda F,Antuña P,Cuesta J,Rivero F

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Discuss an appropriate strategy for treatment of invasive thymoma invading adjacent great vessels. METHODS:A retrospective study on 25 patients with invasive thymoma invading neighboring great vessels was performed. The corresponding data including clinical presentation, operation procedure, adjuvant radio-...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Sun Y,Gu C,Shi J,Fang W,Luo Q,Hu D,Fu S,Pan X,Chen Y,Yang Y,Yang H,Zhao H,Chen H

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:A standardized treatment algorithm for sternoclavicular joint infection management is lacking in the literature. While major risk factors for sternoclavicular joint infection, including immunosuppression, rheumatoid arthritis, type 2 diabetes, indwelling catheters, and intravenous drug use have been identifi...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Reddy SB,Mizelle J,Sterbling HM,Lin B,Litle VR,Suzuki K

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT) with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and cisplatin (CDDP) are often associated with significant incidence of toxic effects in elderly patients with esophageal cancer. This phase I trial was designed to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) of S-1...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Ji Y,Qiu G,Sheng L,Sun X,Zheng Y,Chen M,Du X

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) of cytologic specimens is a useful ancillary technique in needle aspiration procedures of pulmonary/mediastinal lesions, but few reports had been carried out to confirm the utility in the diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary lesions (PPLs) by radial probe endobronchial ultrasound...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Chen CH,Cheng WC,Wu BR,Chen CY,Chen WC,Hsia TC,Liao WC,Tu CY,Shih CM,Hsu WH,Wang KP

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Deep sternal wound infection (DSWI) is a severe complication following cardiac surgery. We compared epidemiology, clinical features, and microbiology of three types of DSWI and examined the antibiotic resistance in DSWI patients. Methods:From 2011 to 2015, 170 adult post-cardiac surgery DSWI patients were r...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Ma JG,An JX

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung transplantation is the gold standard therapy for patients with end-stage lung disease. The use of the lung allocation score (LAS) has permitted improved allocation of scarce pulmonary allografts. Recently, Crawford et al. examined the experience in the United States in lung transplantation in candidates with the ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Mulvihill MS,Hartwig MG,Daneshmand MA

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rituximab, a monoclonal antibody against CD20+ antigen specific B cell, has been increasingly used in the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and some other autoimmune diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis. It is noted that Rituximab could enhanced the efficacy of CHOP-based che...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Jiang XQ,Fang L,Mei XD,Wang XJ,Bao MH

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kehlet first introduced the notion of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS). Moreover, in the last years, the fast-track programmes demonstrated a reduction of complications and the hospital length of stay in general surgery. ERAS involves a multidisciplinary to development the value of care introducing the evidence-...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Bertolaccini L,Brunelli A

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The importance of the role of bronchial arteries is notable in modern days thoracic surgery. The significance of their anastomoses with adjusted structures has not yet been sufficiently rated, especially in cases of haemoptysis, heart-lung transplantations and treatment of aneurysms of the thoracic aorta. Th...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Kotoulas C,Panagiotou I,Tsipas P,Melachrinou M,Alexopoulos D,Dougenis D

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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:Preoperative lymphocyte count (pre-LC) predicts the relapse and survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), the clinical application of postoperative lymphocyte count (post-LC) change (LCc) remains unclear. Methods:A retrospective analysis of patients with newly diagnosed ESCC who r...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Song Q,Wu JZ,Wang S

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an 8-year-old female undergoing interventional catheterization for treatment of pulmonary artery stenoses, atrial septal defect and patent ductus arteriosus. Anomalous left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery was diagnosed during the procedure. We highlight the importance of recognizing this ra...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Robinson L,Baruteau AE,Fraisse A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the widespread use of computed tomography (CT), the frequency of discovering ground glass opacity (GGO) pulmonary lesions has increased. There have been some reports on surgery or transthoracic needle aspiration (TTNA) for diagnostic sampling of GGOs but none on transbronchial biopsy (TBB). The purpose ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Izumo T,Sasada S,Chavez C,Tsuchida T

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bidirectional interaction between sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and stroke has been the subject of many studies. On the one hand, different forms of SDB, and especially obstructive sleep apnea, increase the risk of stroke either directly or indirectly by influencing other known cardiovascular risk factors such ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Alexiev F,Brill AK,Ott SR,Duss S,Schmidt M,Bassetti CL

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：Background:Tracheobronchopathia osteochondroplastica (TPO) is characterized by the presence of diffuse cartilaginous or bony submucosal nodules that lead to airway lumen narrowing. So far, there was no study in South Korea analysing a large number of TPO patients. We aimed to elucidate its treatment strategy and clinic...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Cho HK,Jeong BH,Kim H

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumors of trachea and bronchi are uncommon and can occur in the form of benign or low- and high-grade malignant tumors. Although tracheobronchial tumors (TBTs) represent only 0.6% of all pulmonary tumors, they are clinically significant. Delays in diagnosis of these tumors commonly occur because the signs and symptoms...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Stevic R,Milenkovic B

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:It is urgent to explore an effective potential therapeutic strategy for ESCC. In recent years, cell-based cancer immunotherapy has become a potentially close for carcinoma therapy. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell technology is a kind of adoptive cell therapy technique which has been developed rapidly....

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Shi H,Yu F,Mao Y,Ju Q,Wu Y,Bai W,Wang P,Xu R,Jiang M,Shi J

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:To improve periprocedural outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), transcatheter mechanical resection devices were tested for prior ablation of the aortic cusps. Methods:Three mechanical transcatheter resection devices were tested in a series of native porcine (n=30) and reassembled calci...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Dai H,Lutter G,Frank D,Freitag-Wolf S,Topal A,Haneya A,Sathananthan J,Puehler T

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral oximetry based on near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is increasingly used during the perioperative period of cardiovascular operations. It is a noninvasive technology that can monitor the regional oxygen saturation of the frontal cortex. Current literature indicates that it can stratify patients preoperatively...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Vretzakis G,Georgopoulou S,Stamoulis K,Stamatiou G,Tsakiridis K,Zarogoulidis P,Katsikogianis N,Kougioumtzi I,Machairiotis N,Tsiouda T,Mpakas A,Beleveslis T,Koletas A,Siminelakis SN,Zarogoulidis K

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:There are several techniques for robotic-assisted pulmonary resection, depending on the number and position of ports and utility incisions. We developed a technique for three-incision robotic-assisted pulmonary resection, and here we reported our initial results. Methods:Three-incision pulmonary resection w...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Peng M,Wang X,Chen C,Tan S,Liu W,Yu F

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lumen diameter reduction after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is well known as "restenosis". This phenomenon is due to vessel remodeling/recoil in case of no-stent strategy or, in case of stent employ, "neointimal proliferation" that consists in an excessive tissue proliferation in the luminal surface of...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Buccheri D,Piraino D,Andolina G,Cortese B

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy (nRCT) followed by surgery has become the gold standard treatment in patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer. The pathological response is an important predictor in such patients. This work represents a single-center analysis investigating the impact of pathological com...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Soror T,Kho G,Zhao KL,Ismail M,Badakhshi H

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The tetraspanin KAI1/CD82 was identified as a tumor metastasis suppressor that down-regulated in malignant progression of lung cancer. However, the underlying mechanism of anti-metastasis role of KAI1 in lung cancer is hardly known. In this paper, we sought to study the function and regulatory mechanism of K...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： You J,Chang R,Liu B,Zu L,Zhou Q

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:To compare the clinical outcomes between multiple arterial (MA) and single arterial (SA) off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) when applied to left main coronary disease or three-vessel disease. Methods:A total of 537 patients with left main coronary disease or three-vessel disease underwent MA O...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Zhu P,Chen A,Wang Z,Ye X,Zhou M,Liu J,Zhao Q

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 69-year-old male patient with a history of melanoma and prostate cancer was found to have a 2.6 cm PET-avid, slowly enlarging, left upper lobe lung nodule that was suspicious for either metastasis or primary lung cancer. Due to the deep location of the nodule, a wedge resection was not recommended. A diagnostic and ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Thomas M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00