Distribution of the atypical pathogens of community-acquired pneumonia to disease severity.

abstract：:Transcatheter procedures offer less invasive approaches allowing rapid recovery and earlier hospital discharge. A number of international guidelines have defined the role of echocardiography spanning diagnosis, detailed anatomical assessment, device sizing and selection, peri-procedure guidance and post device surveil...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Rana BS

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:With the improvement in thoracoscopic and laparoscopic surgery, thoracoscopic and laparoscopic esophagectomy (TLE), a minimally invasive approach, has attracted increasing attention as an alternative to open three-field esophagectomy. From June 2012 to October 2013, 90 patients underwent laparoscopic and thoracoscopic...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Zeng F,He B,Wang Y,Xue Y,Cong W

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few years, the treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has impressively benefitted from immunotherapy, in particular from the inhibition of immune checkpoints such as programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) and programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1). However, despite the significant survival b...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Berland L,Heeke S,Humbert O,Macocco A,Long-Mira E,Lassalle S,Lespinet-Fabre V,Lalvée S,Bordone O,Cohen C,Leroy S,Hofman V,Hofman P,Ilié M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the clinical characteristics, treatment and prognosis of patients with solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura (SFTP) in order to improve the diagnostic accuracy and treatment of SFTP. METHODS:A retrospective analysis of clinical and imaging features, serum biochemical changes, pathological characteris...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Chu X,Zhang L,Xue Z,Ren Z,Sun YE,Wang M,Liu M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expanded possibilities to explore the lung deeper with new tools such as electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) or radial probe endobronchial ultrasonography (radial EBUS), combined with miniaturization of traditional local therapies such as radiofrequency ablation (RFA), radiotherapy, cryotherapy or photod...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Vieira T,Stern JB,Girard P,Caliandro R

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) of the mediastinum are very rare. Prognosis is usually poor despite treatment options. We present the case of a primary atypical carcinoid tumor of the mediastinum successfully treated by multimodal approach. A 50-year-old man presented for asthenia, dyspnea, and substernal sense o...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Ventura L,Gnetti L,Silini EM,Rindi G,Carbognani P,Rusca M,Ampollini L

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung is a common organ of metastases in patients with primary breast cancer. Pulmonary metastasis of primary breast cancer is usually considered as a systemic disease, however, the systemic approaches have achieved little progress in terms of prolonging survival time. In contrast, some studies revealed a pro...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Fan J,Chen D,Du H,Shen C,Che G

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Thymic carcinoma (TC) is a rare mediastinal tumor, and patients with stage IV TC have a poor prognosis. No optimal chemotherapeutic regimen has yet been established. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of S-1 as a salvage mono-therapy in stage IV TC. Methods:Patients with histologically conf...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Wang CL,Gao LT,Lu CX

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Primary focal hyperhidrosis (PFH) is associated with autonomic nervous activity, and studies investigating this association in patients with PFH are very important. Heart rate variability (HRV) is a simple and noninvasive electrocardiographic test showing activity and balance in the autonomic nervous system,...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

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

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular structure related compression of esophagus is rather rare. Aberrant right subclavicular artery accounts for the majority of the rare entity, while the thoracic aorta aneurysm is a more dangerous type, called as dysphagia aortica. Delay in diagnosis and treatment of the dysphagia aortica predisposes to rup...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Wang WP,Yan XL,Ni YF,Zhang T,Han Y,Li XF,Lu Q

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) is a well-established imaging modality with numerous proven applications across multiple clinical disciplines. More recently, CBCT has emerged as an important imaging tool for bronchoscopists, primarily used during transbronchial biopsy of peripheral pulmonary lesions (PPLS). For t...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Setser R,Chintalapani G,Bhadra K,Casal RF

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rate of detection of small pulmonary nodules (SPNs) has increased. Thoracoscopic resection following image-guided localization had been a reliable alternative in their treatment. We present our experience with image-guided dye localization using robotic C-arm computed tomography (CT) followed by immediat...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Yang SM,Ko WC,Lin MW,Hsu HH,Chan CY,Wu IH,Chang YC,Chen JS

更新日期：2016-10-01 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:The aim of this study was to reveal the short-term outcomes of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) segmentectomy without tracheal intubation compared with intubated general anesthesia with one-lung ventilation (OLV). METHODS:We performed a retrospective review of our institutional database of consec...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Guo Z,Yin W,Pan H,Zhang X,Xu X,Shao W,Chen H,He J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Thoracoscopic surgery (TS) has been used more commonly as a less invasive procedure for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) than conventional thoracotomy (TH) in Japan. However, limited evidential data are available to compare the treatment efficacy of TS and TH. The purpose of this study was to r...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Nakao M,Ichinose J,Matsuura Y,Nakagawa K,Okumura S,Mun M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) is an aggressive soft tissue sarcoma known to occur in various organs. Primary MFH arising in the lung is quite rare. Herein we report a case of a 61-year-old male with primary pulmonary MFH and explore the underlying molecular mechanisms by next-generation sequencing (NGS). Five g...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Li X,Liu R,Shi T,Dong S,Ren F,Yang F,Ren D,Fan H,Wei S,Chen G,Chen J,Xu S

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between respiratory viral load and lung lesion severity of patients with pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza A pneumonia. STUDY DESIGN:Cross-sectional observation study. METHODS:24 consecutive H1N1 influenza patients with viral pneumonia (13 males, 11 females, mean age: 17.5 years) ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Lu PX,Deng YY,Yang GL,Liu WL,Liu YX,Huang H,Wang YX

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spontaneous pneumothoraces (SP) tend to occur in clusters which have been related to atmospheric pressure variations and thunderstorm insurgence. We examined the influence of standard meteorological parameter variations and concentrations of the major air pollutants on incidence of spontaneous pneumothorax (...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Bertolaccini L,Alemanno L,Rocco G,Cassardo C

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to summarize the diagnostic accuracy of white light bronchoscopy (WLB) and advanced techniques for airway pre-cancerous lesions and early cancer, such as autofluorescence bronchoscopy (AFB), AFB combined with WLB (AFB + WLB) and narrow-band imaging (NBI) bronchoscopy. METHODS:We searched for eligib...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Zhang J,Wu J,Yang Y,Liao H,Xu Z,Hamblin LT,Jiang L,Depypere L,Ang KL,He J,Liang Z,Huang J,Li J,He Q,Liang W,He J

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primitive neuro-ectodermal tumour of the lung is an extremely rare occurrence and we hereby report a case of a neuro-ectodermal tumour of the lung which was proved by immuno-histochemical examination of the resected specimen, and he had a very aggressive pattern of behavior. ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Gaude GS,Patil P,Malur P,Annurshetru S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Veno-venous (VV) and veno-arterial (VA) extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy is widely used in critically ill patients with refractory cardiogenic shock and cardiac arrest or suffering from severe respiratory failure. Besides traditional ECMO cannulation, changes in patients' conditions or the occurrence...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Brasseur A,Scolletta S,Lorusso R,Taccone FS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, serious pollutional haze occurs in the mainland of China thanks to the development of urbanization and industrialization. There is a close relationship between air pollution and the occurrence and development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but there are some new characteristics in so...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Wang F,Ni SS,Liu H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid cancer affects 1.3% of the population with increasing rates of incidence over the last decade (approximately 2% per year). Although the overall prognosis is good in the differentiated subtypes, there has been a slow but steady increase in rate of deaths associated with thyroid cancer (approximately 0.7% per ye...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Bonjoc KJ,Young H,Warner S,Gernon T,Maghami E,Chaudhry A

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortic stenosis is the most common valvular disease worldwide. With transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) being increasingly expanded to lower-risk populations, several challenging issues remain to be solved. The present review aims at discussing modern approaches to such issues as well as the current status o...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Mas-Peiro S,Fichtlscherer S,Walther C,Vasa-Nicotera M

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatal hemoptysis is a serious complication of pulmonary tuberculosis, which can rarely be due to a bronchial aneurysm. Here, we present a case of fatal hemoptysis due to bronchial aneurysm occurred in a 59-year-old patient of Han ethnicity suffering from active pulmonary tuberculosis. Meanwhile, we perform a literatur...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Cheng YS,Lu ZW

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cornerstone of curative care for esophageal cancer is neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by esophagectomy with a radical lymphadenectomy. An esophagectomy is a major and complex surgical procedure and is often followed by postoperative morbidity, especially pulmonary complications. These complications may lead...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Seesing MFJ,Kingma BF,Weijs TJ,Ruurda JP,van Hillegersberg R

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Hemoptysis is one of the most important complications associated with fungus ball. However, the association of the primary size of the fungus ball and its change with the incidence of hemoptysis was not fully established. This study aims to determine the clinical risk factors of severe hemoptysis and natural...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Kim TH,Koo HJ,Lim CM,Hong SB,Huh JW,Jo KW,Shim TS,Kim WS,Koh Y

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The novel HeartMate 3 (Abbott, Chicago, IL, USA) left ventricular assist device (LVAD) was worldwide first implanted by Prof. Schmitto and his team in 2014 at the Hannover Medical School, Germany and received CE Mark approval in October, 2015 following completion of a clinical trial. Methods:Although HeartM...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Schmitto JD,Krabatsch T,Damme L,Netuka I

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Pleural effusions are common complications of various diseases. Patients with malignant pleural effusion (MPE) usually face poor prognosis and short life expectancy. Discriminating between MPE and benign pleural effusion remains to be difficult. The aim of our current study was to evaluate whether CD206+CD14...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Pei XB,Wu XZ,Yi FS,Zhai K,Shi HZ

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00