Published in Journal of Thoracic Disease
Background Tube thoracostomy is the definitive treatment for most significant chest trauma, including injuries resulting in pneumothorax, hemothorax, and hemopneumothorax. However, traditional chest tubes fail to sufficiently remove blood up to 20% of the time (i.e., retained hemothorax), which can lead to empyema and fibrothorax, as well as signif...
Published in Journal of Thoracic Disease
Background Blood eosinophil levels are a known marker for the effects of therapy in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This study aimed to clarify the cutoff values for blood eosinophils (EOS) to predict exacerbation risk and prognosis of acute exacerbation COPD (AECOPD) and investigate their correlation using inflammatory ...
Published in Journal of Thoracic Disease
Background Due to the high incidence and mortality of lung cancer, and etoposide is the standard first-line chemotherapy for small cell lung cancer, to evaluate the efficacy and safety of etoposide capsules at different doses as maintenance therapy for patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) who show a response to etoposide p...
Published in Journal of Thoracic Disease
Published in Journal of Thoracic Disease
In order to prevent the occurrence of aortic adverse events in ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm patients, preventive surgery is the sole option in case of large aneurysm. Identifying high-risk patients timely and accurately requires effective predictive indicators of aortic adverse events and accurate risk stratification thresholds. Absolute diam...
Published in Journal of Thoracic Disease
Background Health systems worldwide have been overburdened by the “COVID-19 surge”. Consequently, strategies to remodulate non-COVID medical and surgical care had to be developed. Knowledge of the impact of COVID surge on cardiac surgery practice is mainstem. Present study aims to evaluate the regional practice pattern during lockdown in Campania. ...
Published in Journal of Thoracic Disease
During the last decades, women have been discouraged from entering the medical career and in particular in the surgical specialties. This situation is changing across continents and national and international initiatives are supporting aspiring female surgeons in pursuing the surgical career through mentorship and fellowship programmes. Due to the ...
Published in Journal of Thoracic Disease
The eighth edition of the Lung Cancer Handling Regulations defines the pathological findings of “invasion” in the pathological diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma and terms it as adenocarcinoma in situ/minimally invasive carcinoma. In addition, the invasion diameter (tumor diameter excluding the lepidic growth region) was adopted as the pT factor, and...
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Background Patients with bronchiectasis are often treated with bronchodilators such as long-acting muscarinic antagonists (LAMA) or long-acting beta-agonists (LABA) for their symptoms, but empirical evidence supporting such practice is sparse. We evaluated the effect of LAMA and LABA on lung function improvement in patients with bronchiectasis. Met...
Published in Journal of Thoracic Disease
Background The incidence of brain metastasis (BM) in patients suffering from lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) is lower than that in patients suffering from non-squamous cell carcinoma (NSCC) and there are few studies on BM of LUSC. The purpose of this investigation was to ascertain the risk factors of LUSC, as well as to establish a nomogram pro...
