Cardiac rhythm disorders in obstructive sleep apnea

Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho,Glaucylara Reis Geovanini

The management of chest tubes after pulmonary lobectomy—driven by dogma or by science?

Hiran C. Fernando

Comorbid obstructive sleep apnoea and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the risk of cardiovascular disease

Walter T. McNicholas

Successful rebuilding after disaster, even in the heart, starts with infrastructure

Douglas B. Sawyer,Michael P. Robich,Sergey Ryzhov

Editorial comments for neoadjuvant chemo-radiotherapy in the treatment of locally advanced squamous cell esophageal cancer

Vadim G. Pischik

Clinical application of invasive cardiopulmonary exercise test for dyspnea diagnosis in Chinese people

Cheng Hong,Chunli Liu,Jingping Zheng,Nanshan Zhong,Nuofu Zhang,Shiyue Li,Tao Wang,Wenli Chen,Yanghan Chen,Yi Gao,Yi Hong

Changing paradigms of non-small cell lung cancer treatment

Enrico Ruffini,Fabrizio Tabbò,Francesco Guerrera,Pietro Bertoglio

Aiming for evidence-based best practices in thoracic surgery—leadership in surgery

Patrick James Villeneuve, Sebastien Gilbert

Modifiable risk factors for patients undergoing lung cancer surgery and their optimization: a review

Daniel I. McIsaac,Sylvain Gagné

Optimal management of postoperative parenchymal air leaks

Aneil Mujoomdar,Daniel G. French,Drew Bethune,Harry Henteleff,Madelaine Plourde

A novel desmin mutation causing severe left ventricular arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy/dysplasia

Gary Tse,George Bazoukis,Ka Hou Christien Li,Konstantinos P. Letsas,Yunlong Xia

Precision medicine and aerosolization in mechanically ventilated adults

Christian Domingo,Jordi Rello

Three-vessel fractional flow reserve measurement for predicting clinical prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease

Hiroki Emori,Kosei Terada,Takashi Kubo,Yosuke Katayama

Wind of change in surgical treatment of thymic tumors

Camilla Poggi,Daniele Diso,Erino A. Rendina,Federico Venuta,Marco Anile,Ylenia Pecoraro

Erratum to South African guideline for the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults

Adrian Brink,Andrew C. Whitelaw,Charles Feldman,Cheryl Cohen,Clifford Smith,Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa,Gary Maartens,Greg L. Calligaro,Guy A. Richards,Keertan Dheda,Richard van Zyl Smit,Sean Wasserman,South African Thoracic Society,Tom H. Boyles

Fourth International Joint Meeting on Thoracic Surgery, Barcelona 2018

Laureano Molins Ramón Rami-Porta José Belda Sanchis

Prof. Laureano Molins: work with the only objective of the benefit of the patient and the next generation of your profession

Relevance of a specialised nurse in thoracic surgery

Jenny Mitchell

E-cigarettes/electronic nicotine delivery systems: a word of caution on health and new product development

Darian W. Unger,Michael Unger

Tuberculosis: mother of thoracic surgery then and now, past and prospectives: a review

Tamas F. Molnar

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy with chest wall resection

Guilherme Dal Agnol,Paula A. Ugalde,Ricardo Oliveira

Tubeless major pulmonary resections

Carlos Galvez,Diego Gonzalez-Rivas,Francisco Lirio,Juan Manuel Corcoles,Sergio Bolufer

Timing of high intensity statin for acute coronary syndrome: how earlier initiation makes better?

Choongki Kim,Donghoon Choi

Predictive factors for invasive adenocarcinoma in patients with clinical non-invasive or minimally invasive lung cancer

Jae Kil Park,Jinwon Shin,Kyo Young Lee,Seha Ahn,Youngkyu Moon

HRCT in primary pulmonary lymphoma: can CT imaging phenotypes

Aiping Chen,Chunyan Xia,Hailin Jiang,Hong Yu,Lin Zhu,Yinan Chen,Yuxuan Zhang

A young man with progressive esophageal neoplasms

David Tian,Garrett Baron,Jianfei Shen,Kevin Phan,Lijie Tan,Mark F. Berry,Shanda H. Blackmon,Shari L. Meyerson,Thomas A. D’Amico,Xavier Benoit D’Journo,Yaxing Shen,Yi-Jen Chen,Yingyong Hou,written on behalf of AME Esophageal Cancer Collaborative Group

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

Aihua Li,Cheng Gong,Fang Huang,Maozhong Li,Mei Dong,Ming Luo,Tiegang Zhang,Yiting Wang

A review and analysis of strategies for prediction, prevention and management of post-operative atrial fibrillation after non-cardiac thoracic surgery

Andrew Seely,Ching Yeung,Donna Maziak,Farid Shamji,Heather Smith,Mouhannad Sadek,Patrick Villeneuve,Sebastien Gilbert,Stephen Gowing,Sudhir Sundaresan

Implementing a thoracic enhanced recovery with ambulation after surgery program: key aspects and challenges

Hiran C. Fernando,Joby Chandy,Marissa A. Mayor,Sandeep J. Khandhar

Association between coronary artery atherosclerosis and plasma glucose levels assessed by dual-source computed tomography

Jiayi Zheng,Jing Wang,Kun Sun,Lili Xi,Lina Zhang,Lingwei Yu,Ming Ding,Yi Yu,Zhiwen Zhou

Systematic review and meta-analysis of the accuracy of 18F-FDG PET/CT for detection of regional lymph node metastasis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Chenxue Jiang,Yaoyao Zhu,Yapping Xu,Yun Chen

Learning curve of uniportal video-assisted lobectomy: analysis of 15-month experience in a single center

Alfredo Cesario,Dania Nachira,Elisa Meacci,Elisabetta Gualtieri,Leonardo Petracca Ciavarella,Mahmoud Ismail,Marco Chiappetta,Maria Letizia Vita,Maria Teresa Congedo,Stefano Margaritora,Venanzio Porziella

Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic early learning curve for major lung resections in a high volume training center

Gening Jiang,Lei Lin,Luis Angel Hernandez-Arenas,Rushmi D. Purmessur,Yiming Zhou,Yuming Zhu

Preface to the 4th International Uniportal VATS Course—Special Issue

Course Director,Course Director Diego Gonzalez-Rivas,Mahmoud Ismail

Lymph node upstaging for non-small cell lung cancer after uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopy

Dania Nachira,Feng Li,Gian Maria Ferretti,Harun Badakhshi,Jens C. Rueckert,Julianna Paulina Englisch,Mahmoud Ismail,Marc Swierzy,Ramin Raul Ossami Saidy

An acoustic method for systematic ventricular assist device thrombus evaluation with a novel artificial thrombus model

Alexander Stomps,Anamika Chatterjee,Axel Haverich,Birgit Glasmacher,Christina Feldmann,Ezin Deniz,Günes Dogan,Jan D. Schmitto,Jasmin S. Hanke,L. Christian Napp,Regina Wendl,Sara Knigge

Left ventricular assist device exchange for the treatment of HeartMate II pump thrombosis

Anamika Chatterjee,Axel Haverich,Christina Feldmann,Günes Dogan,Jan D. Schmitto,Jan Heimeshoff,Jasmin S. Hanke,Leonard Wert,Marcel Ricklefs

Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) program in Chile: first successful experience in South America

Andres Vera,Ernesto Aránguiz-Santander,Felipe Cárdenas,Fernando Aranda,Javier Alburquerque,Jose A. Mu？oz,Julio Ibarra,Lorenzo Merello,Manuel Novajas,Oneglio Pedemonte,Paulina Espinoza

MitraClip procedure prior to left ventricular assist device implantation

Anamika Chatterjee,Axel Haverich,Bakr Mashaqi,Christina Feldmann,Ezin Deniz,Guenes Dogan,Jan D. Schmitto,Jasmin S. Hanke,Marcel Ricklefs

Editorial on “upfront surgery as first-line therapy in selected patients with stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer”

Hongsheng Lin,Kun Qiao

Predictive biomarkers for immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy: we need to keep searching

Apar Kishor Ganti,Mary M. Huerter

Standardizing the time-honored wedge resection

Bryan M. Burt,Hyun-Sung Lee,Masatsugu Hamaji,So Miyahara

Reduction of driveline infections through doubled driveline tunneling of left ventricular assist devices—5-year follow-up

Anamika Chatterjee,Axel Haverich,Christina Feldmann,Felix Flei？ner,Günes Dogan,Jan D. Schmitto,Jasmin S. Hanke,Leonhard Wert,Marcel Ricklefs

A lower level of forced expiratory volume in one second predicts the poor prognosis of small cell lung cancer

Ah Young Shin,Chang Dong Yeo,Hye Seon Kang,Jin Woo Kim,Ju Sang Kim,Sang Haak Lee,Yong Hyun Kim

Treatment of spontaneous esophageal rupture (Boerhaave syndrome) using thoracoscopic surgery and sivelestat sodium hydrate

Chiaki Sato,Hiroshi Okamoto,Hirotaka Ishida,Jin Teshima,Ko Onodera,Makoto Hikage,Rikiya Kamba,Shota Maruyama,Tadashi Sakurai,Takahiro Heishi,Takashi Kamei,Yu Onodera,Yusuke Taniyama

Contemporary applications of intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation for cardiogenic shock: a “real world” experience

Alberto Zangrillo,Andrea Montisci,Federico Pappalardo,Massimiliano Greco,Ma？gorzata Celińska-Spodar,Michele De Bonis,Silvia Ajello

Novel risk factors for the healthcare associated infections (HAIs) in patients with Stanford type A aortic dissection (TAAD)

Bu-Qing Ni,Song-Qin Li,Wei-Hong Zhang,Wen-Sen Chen,Yong-Feng Shao

The impact of slice-reduced computed tomography on histogrambased densitometry assessment of lung fibrosis in patients with systemic sclerosis

Britta Maurer,Fabian Morsbach,Oliver Distler,Thi Dan Linh Nguyen-Kim,Thomas Frauenfelder,Yossra A. Suliman

Extended donor criteria in heart transplantation: a retrospective study from a single Chinese institution

Fei Xie,Jiawei Shi,Jie Cai,Jing Zhang,Mahmoud H. Alshirbini,Nianguo Dong,Yixuan Wang,Yongfeng Sun

Can His bundle pacing prevent right ventricular pacing-induced cardiomyopathy, heart failure, or death?

Nath Zungsontiporn,Richard Wu