Acute exacerbation of interstitial lung diseases secondary to systemic rheumatic diseases: a prospective study and review of the literature

Amelia Spinella,Andreina Manfredi,Carlo Salvarani,Caterina Vacchi,Fabrizio Luppi,Giovanni Della Casa,Giulia Cassone,Marco Sebastiani,Pancaldi Fabrizio,Roberto Tonelli,Stefania Cerri

Invited editorial on “Intraoperative conversion during video-assisted thoracoscopy does not constitute a treatment failure”

Dohun Kim

Dissection of the left paratracheal area is frequently missed during left side non-small cell lung cancer surgery

Gonzalo Varela,Marcelo F. Jiménez

Risk factors for postoperative complications and long-term survival in lung cancer patients older than 80 years

Sira Laohathai,Sukki Cho

Pulmonary laser-assisted metastasectomy is associated with prolonged survival in patients with colorectal cancer

Bernward Passlick,Friederike Funcke,Isabelle Moneke,Severin Schmid,Thomas Osei-Agyemang

Application of full lateral decubitus position with cephalic parallel approach in robotic-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy

Lin Ma,Lunxu Liu,Yidan Lin,Yunke Zhu

Airway management in anesthesia for thoracic surgery: a “real life” observational study

Angelo Gratarola,Anna Tornaghi,Antonio Baroselli,Antonio Di Fuccia,Carlo Franco,Carola Matellon,Cecilia Coccia,Chiara Angeletti,Cristian Deana,Domenico Massullo,Elena Giovanna Bignami,Federico Piccioni,Francesco Baldinelli,Francesco Pugliese,Giorgio Della Rocca,Livia Pompei,Luca Brazzi,Marco Valerio Micozzi,Nicola Langiano,Noemi Sacchi,Pasquale De Negri,Remo Orsetti,Rocco D’Andrea,Rosanna Accardo,Silvia Fiorelli

Waste not, want not: diagnostic material found in suction syringe aspirate during endobronchial ultrasound guided transbronchial needle aspiration

Adam D. Highley,Carolina A. Landeen,Douglas R. Moore,Nikhil Jagan,Ryan W. Walters,Zachary S. DePew

Health-related quality of life and survival among 10-year survivors of esophageal cancer surgery: gastric tube reconstruction versus whole stomach reconstruction

Cheng Zhang,Min Zhang,Qing-Chen Wu

Implications of elevated cardiac troponin in patients presenting with acute pulmonary embolism: an observational study

Ayman El-Menyar,Hassan Al-Thani,Mohamed Nadeem Ahmed,Mohammad Asim,Syed Nabir

Verification of meta-analysis and propensity-matched analysis comparing stereotactic body radiation therapy versus surgery for early stage lung cancer

Hiroshi Onishi

Blood-based tumor mutation burden: continued progress toward personalizing immunotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer

Jianjun Zhang,Vincent K. Lam

Does perioperative administration of glutamine, fiber and oligosaccharide (GFO) improve perioperative immune conditions and reduce early postoperative surgical stress after esophagectomy?

Hirotoshi Kikuchi,Hiroya Takeuchi

Immunonutrition in the esophagectomy patient: food for thought

Benjamin D. Kozower,Melanie Subramanian

Postoperative management of lung transplant recipients

Amit D. Parulekar,Christina C. Kao

Pharmacotherapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension

Ajith Nair,Anju Bhardwaj,Vishal Parikh

Pharmacotherapy and adjunctive treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)

Ala Alkhatib,Jay K. Kolls,Joseph A. Lasky,Shigeki Saito,Yasuhiro Kondoh

Outcomes and risk factors of postoperative hepatic dysfunction in patients undergoing acute type A aortic dissection surgery

Fan Qiao,Guokun Wang,Wei Zhou,Yang Liu,Yangfeng Tang,Yaoyang Liu,Yun Tao,Zhen Du,Zhiyun Xu

Lung transplant with bronchial arterial revascularization: review of surgical technique and clinical outcomes

Gosta Pettersson,James J. Yun,Shinya Unai

Assessment and treatment of the failing right heart: considerations for transplantation referral

Ziad Taimeh

Does this recent randomised controlled trial of intermittent pneumatic compression devices really indicate that they are ineffective in critical care patients?

Martin Dennis

IL-33 in murine abdominal aortic aneurysm: a novel inflammatory mediator awaiting clinical translation

Shirling Tsai,Xunde Xian

Usefulness of venous-to-arterial partial pressure of CO 2 difference to assess oxygen supply to demand adequacy: effects of dobutamine

Boulos Nassar,Jihad Mallat

Combination of O 2 and CO 2 -derived variables to detect tissue hypoxia in the critically ill patient

Gustavo A. Ospina-Tascón,Humberto J. Madri？án

Stepwise and standardized training for minimally invasive surgery for thoracic surgery trainees

George Makdisi,Tony Makdisi

Is there a role for upfront surgery in patients with N2 disease and good prognostic features?

Benny Weksler,Candice Lee,David A. Guel

Minimally invasive bronchial and bronchovascular sleeve resections

Michael Eberlein,Natalie Baldes,Servet B？lükbas

Locally advanced N2 non-small cell lung cancer and the robotic platform: are we asking the right question?

Jean-Marc Baste

Use of staplers and adverse events in thoracic surgery

Aljaz Hojski,Didier Lardinois,Dragan Subotic,Mark Wiese

Occupational adverse effects and protective factors in bronchoscopy

Chong Bai,Kai Chen

Will bubbling decrease the muddling?—a promising technique to detect air leak intra-operatively

Christopher Pysyk,Sebastien Gilbert,Suha Kaaki

Robotic sleeve lobectomy-technically possible but is it being overused?

Rishindra M. Reddy

Multidisciplinary team approach on massive postpartum pulmonary thromboembolism: experience from three cases

Hyeran Kang,Kwok Ming Ho,Laura Adelaide Dalla Vecchia,Sang Min Kim,Yook Kim,Yoon Mi Shin

Nomogram to predict postoperative PR in patients undergoing CT-guided transthoracic lung biopsy

Junwei Tu,Ke Dong,Saibin Wang

Surgical management of multiple rib fractures/flail chest

Joshil Vinod Lodhia,Konstantinos Konstantinidis,Kostas Papagiannopoulos

Bone cement is a suitable treatment for sternal reconstruction in patients with recurrent sternal wound infections

Ahmet Kilic,Baofu Chen,Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero,Francesco Nappi,Hongfei Ge,Jianfei Shen,Junhong Lin,Ke Jin,Min Kong,Taufiek Konrad Rajab

Editorial on comparison between stereotactic body radiotherapy and surgery in early stage NCSLC by Scotti et al.

Hideomi Yamashita

Comparison of pulmonary metastasectomy and stereotactic body radiation therapy for the treatment of lung metastases

Francesco Petrella,Lorenzo Spaggiari

Dr. Varun Puri: decision analysis works to compare therapies when randomized clinical trials cannot

Erratum to arterial events in cancer patients—the case of acute coronary thrombosis

Joerg Herrmann,Oren Ohad

Percutaneous mitral valve repair: an evolving reality

Rodrigo Mendirichaga,Vikas Singh

Editorial on “Trans-inferior-pulmonary-ligament VATS basal segmentectomy: application of single-direction strategy in segmentectomy of left S9+10”

Alberto Lopez-Pastorini,Aris Koryllos,Erich Stoelben

Targeted treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome with statins—a commentary on two phenotype stratified re-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Dennis C. J. J. Bergmans,Lieuwe D. J. Bos,Nanon F. L. Heijnen,Ronny M. Schnabel,on behalf of the DARTS consortium

Does the “obesity paradox” really exist in lung cancer surgery? —maybe we should recognize what is the “obesity” first

Guowei Che,Longqi Chen,Lunxu Liu,Shuangjiang Li

Management of delayed gastric conduit emptying after esophagectomy

Lanjun Zhang,Rusi Zhang

The microbiome and lung cancer

Abhiram Maddi,Amarpreet Sabharwal,Robert Genco,Sai Yendamuri,Santosh Patnaik,Sunita Manuballa,Timothy Violante

Cupid’s arrow retained in the heart

Angeliki Kosti,Giacomo Frati,Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai,Mariangela Peruzzi,Massimo Caputo,Sebastiano Sciarretta,Umberto Benedetto

Critical care medicine in 2050: less invasive, more connected, and personalized

Jacques Creteur,Jean-Louis Vincent

Mesenchymal tumors of the lung: diagnostic pathology, molecular pathogenesis, and identified biomarkers

Hirotsugu Hashimoto,Keisuke Sugita,Kentaro Inamura,Yuta Tsugeno

Gross handling of pulmonary resection specimen: maintaining the 3-dimensional orientation

Chris Dickhoff,Erik Thunnissen,Mari Mino-Kenudson,Rick Paul,Rutger Lely,Teodora Radonic