Cardiac fibrosis in regenerative medicine: destroy to rebuild

Erica Rurali,Gianluca Lorenzo Perrucci,Giulio Pompilio

Management of drug-resistant tuberculosis in special sub-populations including those with HIV co-infection, pregnancy, diabetes, organ-specific dysfunction, and in the critically ill

Aliasgar Esmail,Ikechi Okpechi,Keertan Dheda,Natasha F. Sabur

miRNAs as biomarkers and for the early detection of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

Hecheng Li,Yichao Han

Is “lung repair centre” a possible answer to organ shortage?— transplantation of left and right lung at two different centres after ex vivo lung perfusion evaluation and repair: case report

Alessandro Palleschi,Alessandro Rebusso,Federico Rea,Franco Valenza,Lorenzo Rosso,Luigi Santambrogio,Marco Schiavon,Mario Nosotti,Paolo Mendogni

Chinese expert consensus on diagnosis and management of severe asthma

Changgui Wu,Changzheng Wang,Chinese Medical Association,Chuntao Liu,Dong Yang,Jiangtao Lin,Kaisheng Yin,Mao Huang,Nan Su,Ping Chen,Shaoxi Cai,Xin Zhou,Yongming Zhang,and China Asthma Alliance,on behalf of Asthma Workgroup of Chinese Thoracic Society

The methylation induced by protein arginine methyltransferase 5 promotes tumorigenesis and progression of lung cancer

Haizhou Dang,Nianlin Xie,Pengyu Jing,Ximing Zhu,Zhongping Gu

EGFR L747P mutation in one lung adenocarcinoma patient responded to afatinib treatment: a case report

Chuang Qi,Peng Li,Tong Zhou,Xiaoyue Zhou,Yang Ling

Rhabdomyoma of the pleura: a case report

Cong-Juan Luo,Dong-Liang Lin,Ji-Gang Wang,Li Zhang,Wei Wang,Xiao-Bin Ji,Yan Wang,Ying-Ying Gu,Yu-Hong Dong

Country activities of Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD): focus presentations at the 11th GARD General Meeting, Brussels

Ahmad Dmeirieh,Aicha AlJaber,Alvaro A. Cruz,Ammar Alzein,Anahí Ya？ez,Anilsa Cossa,Anna Bedbrook,Antonello Punturieri,Arzu Yorgancioglu,Banu Ekinci,Bassam Abou Al-Zahab,Bilun Gemicio？lu,Claude Lenfant,Cláudia Concei？？o,Cristina Bárbara,Elisabete Melo-Gomes,Elizabete Nunes,Francisco George,Ghazal Dib,Hazar Faroun,Jamal Aloush,James P. Kiley,Jean Bousquet,José Rosado-Pinto,Le Thi Tuyet Lan,Margarete Arrais,Maria do Céu Teixeira,Marilyn Urrutia-Pereira,Marylin Valentin Rostan,Mo？ses A. Calderon,Paula Sim？o,Paulo Camargos,Paulo Ferrinho,Rachel McGihon,Rafea Shaaban,Ramsa Halloum,Rania Shifa,Raphael Stelmach,René Maximiliano Gómez,Sandra Nora González-Díaz,Suzanne Hurd,Teresa To,Václav ？pi？ák,Vítězslav Kolek,Yassine Fatmeh,Yousser Mohammad,Zachary German,Zubeyda Ozkan

Are quality of life outcomes comparable following stereotactic radiotherapy and minimally invasive surgery for stage I lung cancer patients?

Cecilia Pompili,Galina Velikova,Kate Absolom,Kevin Franks

Video-assisted thoracic surgery double sleeve bilobectomy of right upper and middle lobes

Chengwu Liu,Jiandong Mei,Lin Ma,Lunxu Liu,Qiang Pu

Extracorporeal support, during and after lung transplantation: the history of an idea

Fabio Ius,Gregor Warnecke,Igor Tudorache

Introduction to Journal of Thoracic Disease new column: Critical Care Frontier and Horizon

FCAHS,Haibo Zhang,MD,PhD

Impact of simulation training on performance and outcomes of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration performed by trainees in a tertiary academic hospital

Aik Hau Tan,Alvin Shao Qiang Ong,Devanand Anantham,Kah Yee Tham,Kiran Sharma,Mariko Siyue Koh,Rehena Sultana,Shera Tan,Therese Sophie Lapperre

Tracheo-innominate artery fistula caused by isolated innominate artery pseudo-aneurysm rupture

Do Hyung Kim,Jong Myung Park,Joo Hyung Son,Sang Kwon Lee,Yun Seong Kim

Accumulation of periostin in acute exacerbation of familial idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Hideaki Yokoo,Keisuke Murata,Kenji Izuhara,Kunio Dobashi,Kyoichi Kaira,Norimitsu Kasahara,Nozomi Nakajima,Satoshi Nunomura,Takeshi Hisada,Toshitaka Maeno,Yasuhiko Koga,Yoshimasa Hachisu

Surgical embolectomy for acute massive pulmonary embolism: state of the art

Alessandra Iaccarino,Antonio De Bellis,Elio Iovine,Ernesto Greco,Giacomo Frati,Leonardo Schirone,Mizar D’Abramo,Sebastiano Sciarretta,Wael Saade

Percutaneous pleural drainage in patients taking clopidogrel: real danger or phantom fear?

Katherine Linder,Oleg Epelbaum

Editorial on: current state of empyema management

Johannes Bodner,Martin Reichert

Firmer footing for ventilating and monitoring the injured lung

John J. Marini

Percutaneous coronary intervention equates to placebo procedure in stable angina?

Hai-Long Dai,Xue-Feng Guang,Zhi-Cheng Jing

Single ventricle, many arrhythmias

Matthew E. Oster,Peter Fischbach,Robert Whitehill

Pulmonary vasculitis

Ana Casal,Jorge Ricoy,Juan Díaz-Garel,Luis Valdés,María E. Toubes,Tara Pereiro

Patient screening for early detection of aortic stenosis (AS)—review of current practice and future perspectives

Daniel Wendt,David Messika-Zeitoun,Jana Kurucova,Markus Kasel,Martin Thoenes,Pepe Zamorano,Peter Bramlage,Richard P. Steeds

Editorial on “What FDG-PET response-assessment method best predicts survival after curative-intent chemoradiation in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): EORTC, PERCIST, Peter Mac or Deauville criteria?”

Joan Fledelius

The utilization of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta: preparation, technique, and the implementation of a novel approach to stabilizing hemorrhage

Dong Hun Kim,Junichi Matsumoto,Sung Wook Chang

When something goes wrong: B cell responses to hepatitis C virus

Patrizia Leone,Vito Racanelli

Specific skin changes induced by chemotherapy

Hai Hu,He-Rui Yao,Jie Chai,Lin Ding,Phei-Er Saw,Qing-Jian Li,Ying Wang,Zhi-Min Jiang,Zhuo-Fei Bi

Atezolizumab: state of art and future perspective in non-small cell lung cancer treatment

Federico Cappuzzo,Lorenza Landi,Silvia Vecchiarelli

New light on the pancreatic cyst conundrum

Nathan A. Berger

Prognostic significance of the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio in ovarian cancer: a meta-analysis

Haitao Zhao,Jianping Xiong,Jianzhen Lin,Junyu Long,Lin Zhao,Lina Song,Min Yang,Weiyu Xu,Wenqin Wang,Xinting Sang,Yi Bai,Yongchang Zheng

Hypertension and risk of cholangiocarcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Haitao Zhao,Hanchun Huang,Jianping Xiong,Jianzhen Lin,Jin Bian,Junyu Long,Tianyi Chi,Weiyu Xu,Xin Lu,Yi Bai,Yiyao Xu

Galectin-9 as a prognostic biomarker in small cell lung cancer

Chao Guan,Xiaoye Zhang,Yaolin Xu

The expression and prognostic value of hypoxia-inducible factor- 1α and p53 in non-small cell lung carcinoma

Feng Li,Feng Xu,Huijiao Chen,Jin Wang,Jing Huang,Yachao Zhai,Yali Shen,Yuming Wan

Julie D. Saba: pediatric oncology is an amazing field that requires both vigilance and medical acumen

Additive effects of atezolizumab and bevacizumab plus chemotherapy for patients with non-small cell lung cancer regardless of presence of EGFR mutations, ALK rearrangements, or PD-L1 expression

Takehiro Uemura,Toyoaki Hida

Matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) and immunosuppressive biomarker profiles of seven head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) cell lines

Amber M. Bates,Emily A. Lanzel,Fang Qian,Kim A. Brogden,Maria Paula Gomez Hernandez

Genetic signatures on prostate biopsy: clinical implications

Justin T. Matulay,Sven Wenske

Are lung adenocarcinoma mutations shaping the immune microenvironment?

Edward B. Garon,Philippe Rochigneux

Prediagnostic genetic stratification for aggressive prostate cancer—is the puzzle for genetic variants gaining shape?

Marco Randazzo,Orlando Burkhardt

An expanding role for osimertinib for the treatment of ErbB family driven NSCLC

Anthony C. Faber,Timothy F. Burns

Targeting ROS1 rearrangements in non-small cell lung cancer with crizotinib and other kinase inhibitors

Daniel B. Costa,Deepa Rangachari,Kartik Sehgal,Rushad Patell

Tumor-mesenchymal stem cell interactions: therapeutic implications for epithelial ovarian cancer

Alain Piché

Identification of two cancer-associated fibroblast markers revealing stromal heterogeneity in sustaining cancer progression and chemoresistance

Alexia Brunel,Cindy Neuzillet,Corinne Bousquet,Rémi Samain

Identification of optimal reference RNAs to normalize miRNA expression data by qRT-PCR in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded lymph node tissue

Chiara Romani,Eliana Bignotti,Paola Todeschini

Large cohort observational study integrates current knowledge on changes in outcome for melanoma brain metastases in tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI)-immunotherapy era

Andrea Riccardo Filippi,Stefano Vagge

Primary hepatic neuroendocrine tumors: retrospective analysis of seven cases and literature review

Dongbing Zhao,Haizhen Lu,Hong Zhao,Jianguo Zhou,Jianjun Zhao,Jianqiang Cai,Qichen Chen,Xiao Chen,Xinyu Bi,Yefan Zhang,Yihebali Chi,Zhen Huang,Zhiyu Li

Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase overexpression correlates with potential resistance to 5-fluorouracil-based treatment in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Daisuke Sano,Hideaki Takahashi,Hiroshi Hyakusoku,Kae Sawakuma,Kentaro Takada,Koji Okudela,Nobuhiko Oridate,Shoko Shimada,Takashi Hatano,Yasuhiro Isono

Efficacy and safety of apatinib in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer refractory to standard therapies

Haijun Zhong,Meiqin Yuan,Wangxia Lv,Yazheng Zhao,Yunshan Yang,Zhong Shi

WASF3 is associated with tumour invasiveness and confers a poor prognosis in human gastric cancer

Guo An,Jun Zhang,Li-Jie Song,Meng Chen,Yi-Qiang Liu,Yi-Xue Wang,Ying Hu