Journal of thoracic disease
Dec 26, 2023
BACKGROUND: The main pathological features of asthma are widespread chronic inflammation of the airways and restricted ventilation due to airway remodeling, which involves changes in a range of regulatory pathways. While the role of T helper type 2 (...
Journal of thoracic disease
Dec 26, 2023
BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a common and serious complication that occurs in the ICU. the determination of early ARDS indicators, along with timely treatment, can potentially diminish medical costs and reduce ARDS-relate...
Journal of thoracic disease
Dec 26, 2023
BACKGROUND: Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is considered either a destination therapy for patients with end-stage heart failure or heart transplantation bridging. LVAD implantation often causes aortic insufficiency (AI), which requires aortic ...
Journal of thoracic disease
Dec 26, 2023
BACKGROUND: In recent years, the incidence of pneumonia has been increasing, which is the main cause of death and morbidity of children and the elderly in the world. Slfn5 is implicated in multiple cancers, and Slfn5 promotes epithelial-mesenchymal t...
Journal of thoracic disease
Dec 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an adverse prognostic marker in patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). We sought to determine the relation of biomarkers of fibrosis [soluble ST2 (sST2), galectin-3], wall stretch [amin...
Journal of thoracic disease
Dec 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Bronchopleural fistula (BPF) remains a serious complication after surgery for lung cancer with bronchial resection. A free pericardial fat pad (FPFP) is applied in high-risk cases to reduce BPF frequency. BPF may occur 6 months after surg...
Journal of thoracic disease
Dec 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Cough-dominant or cough-variant asthma is common in Japan. However, it is unclear whether cough and dyspnea, the cardinal symptoms of bronchial asthma, are similarly perceived, and whether these symptoms are linked to pulmonary function t...
Journal of thoracic disease
Dec 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: QFT-Plus is a recently developed next-generation QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) test. Unlike the QFT-GIT test, it includes a TB2 antigen tube with peptides that may stimulate CD8+ T cells. This study evaluated the diagnostic perfor...
Journal of thoracic disease
Dec 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Thoracic chest drains are placed after cardiac surgery allowing for the clearance of blood, fluid, and air to prevent post-operative complications. Despite its importance, there is little data on the application of digital chest drainage ...
Journal of thoracic disease
Dec 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: Although complete video-assisted thoracic surgery (C-VATS) has been demonstrated to have several advantages compared with conventional thoracotomy, there are few reports on the clinical feasibility of C-VATS for CPAM in infants.