Minimized extracorporeal circulation in non-coronary surgery.

abstract：Background:Monitoring of trends in the use of the intensive care unit (ICU) and the outcomes of ICU patients is essential for the assessment of the effective use of ICU. This study aims to investigate the incidence and outcome of critical care admissions in Taiwan from 1997 to 2013. Methods:Patients >18 years who had ...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Lai CC,Ho CH,Chang CL,Chen CM,Chiang SR,Chao CM,Wang JJ,Cheng KC

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emphysema causes significant morbidity and mortality, incurring both financial and psychosocial costs. Alternatives to medical therapy and surgical lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) have increased interest in bronchoscopic techniques. Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) is still in its infancy and additional...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Ramaswamy A,Puchalski J

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：Background:Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) provide many recommendations for hyperlipidemia management, but some of them are still debatable. Methods:We applied the six-domain Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II (AGREE II) instrument to evaluate the quality of guidelines with lipid management rec...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Zhou H,Zhang S,Sun X,Yang D,Zhuang X,Guo Y,Hu X,Du Z,Zhang M,Liao X

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Red cell distribution width (RDW) might be a novel biomarker that reflects multiple physiological impairments related to atherosclerosis and coronary artery diseases (CAD). We conducted this systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the association of RDW between all-cause mortality and fatal/non-fatal...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Su C,Liao LZ,Song Y,Xu ZW,Mei WY

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) is increasingly accepted in the treatment of locoregional or advanced esophageal cancer. Laparoscopic-thoracoscopic Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy has been proved to be effective in treating middle and distal esophageal cancer, however, intrathoracic esophagogastric anastomosis is tech...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Shen G,Pan SB,Wu M,Zhang S,Xu XF,Chen G

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel strategy of one-stage surgery in combination with thoracic endovascular grafting and resection for T4 lung cancer invading the thoracic aorta and spine is described. A 56-year-old man with locally advanced lung cancer infiltrating the aortic wall and spine underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy and thoracic irradi...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Sato S,Goto T,Koike T,Okamoto T,Shoji H,Ohashi M,Watanabe K,Tsuchida M

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:Carinal resection (CR) and sleeve pneumonectomy (SP) are one of the challenging issues in thoracic surgery and performed rarely. In spite of the knowledge of the technique, the incidence of postoperative complications is higher compared to standard resections. Adequate patient selection, improved anesthetic management...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Weder W,Inci I

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) has been more commonly performed due to the reduced amount of bleeding and transfusion and length of hospital stay. We investigated the feasibility of performing MICS using single-lumen endotracheal tube (SLT). METHODS:We conducted a retrospective review of clinical...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Kim HY,Baek SH,Je HG,Kim TK,Kim HJ,Ahn JH,Park SJ

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：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:Atherosclerosis in diabetic patients progresses fast. Evidence on how to choose target vessels of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) in diabetic patients post-coronary artery bypass graft (post-CABG) is insufficient. Methods:One hundred and fifty-seven patients with diabetes and previous CABG, who u...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Liu D,Cui X,Luo X,Sun Z,Xu B,Qiao S,Yuan J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The detection rate of ground-glass opacity (GGO) in young patients has increased year by year with the increasingly widespread use of high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) and the increased resolution of HRCT imaging. However, no scholars have reported the clinical characteristics and prognosis of GGO i...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Wang J,Ma H,Ni CJ,He JK,Ma HT,Ge JF

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) associates with several extra-pulmonary effects. Muscle dysfunction and wasting is one of the most prominent extra-pulmonary effects and contributes to exercise limitation and health related quality of life (HRQoL), morbidity as well as mortality. The loss of muscle mass is...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Lakhdar R,Rabinovich RA

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is routinely utilized in the treatment of locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). RTOG 0617 found that overall survival was impacted by increased low (5 Gy) and intermediate (30 Gy) cardiac doses. We evaluated the impact of esophageal-sparing IMRT on cardi...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Woodford K,Panettieri V,Ruben JD,Senthi S

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：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：Background:Anterior mediastinal tumours account for 50% of all mediastinal masses. Surgical intervention is the standard approach for their diagnosis or treatment. Minimally invasive techniques have gained significant popularity in the last few decades due to the obvious advantages that they offer. We will describe a s...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Ferreira R,Junqueira N,Rodrigues M,Nobre Â

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:Newly-appearing lung nodules on surveillance imaging in patients with pre-existing lung cancer can present a diagnostic dilemma when attempting to differentiate between metastatic disease, infection, and other inflammatory conditions. Here we report a case of an EGFR-/ALK-/BRAF+ metastatic adenocarcinoma patient who u...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Kalchiem-Dekel O,Paulk A,Kligerman SJ,Burke AP,Shah NG,Dixon RK

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus (DM) and small vessel (SV) disease are two major predictors of adverse outcome in patients treated by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), even when last generation metallic drug-eluting stents (DES) are used. Bioresorbable scaffold (BRS) technology has been recently developed to overcome the di...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Masiero G,Mojoli M,Ueshima D,Tarantini G

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients who require lung resection have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular comorbidities. It has been recommended that surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) should precede lung resection in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis (AS). However, by first undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (T...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Sakai T,Yahagi K,Miura S,Hoshino T,Yokota T,Tanabe K,Ikeda S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The different levels of health information technology (IT) adoption and its integration into hospital workflow can affect the maximization of the benefits of using of health IT. We aimed at sharing our experiences and the journey to the successful adoption of health IT over 13 years at a tertiary university hospital i...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Yoo S,Hwang H,Jheon S

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing evidence that a considerable proportion of patients with diabetes remain undiagnosed and untreated, however, it is unclear whether this is associated with more severe coronary artery disease (CAD) and microvasculature changes compared with diagnosed patients. We assessed CAD extent and se...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Phan K,Mitchell P,Liew G,Plant AJ,Wang SB,Xu J,Chiha J,Thiagalingam A,Burlutsky G,Gopinath B

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epiphrenic esophageal diverticulum is uncommon disease, which is defined as the herniation of the mucosa and submucosa through the muscle layers of the esophageal wall in distal third of the esophagus. Traditionally, thoracotomy has been the preferred surgical approach. Recently, many surgeons have attempted minimally...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Kang DK

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:To describe a single-institutional experience with an innovative technique using CT-guided injection of autologous blood for localization of nonpleural-based pulmonary nodules prior to thoracoscopic excisional biopsy in pediatric patients. Methods:A retrospective review of all patients under the age of 18 w...

journal_title：Journal of thoracic disease

authors： Sheikh F,Brandt RJ,Tsapakos MJ,Baertschiger RM,Croitoru DP

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00