Subcarinal lymph node dissection facilitated by applying suture passer in uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

With the advancement of surgical skills and instrumentation, uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (UniVATS) has become a popular option for the treatment of early stage lung cancer surgery. However, performing subcarinal lymph node dissection remains technically challenging under UniVATS view. We introduce a novel technique that utilized a suture passer to improve the exposure of the subcarinal area and simplify lymph node dissection, which has the potential for widespread adoption in clinical practice.

The efficacy and safety of uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery on the treatment for stage II-III tuberculous empyema: a single-arm clinical retrospective study from 2016 to 2021 in a thoracic surgery center in China.

Background: Surgery is an important adjuvant treatment for tuberculous empyema(TE). We thus conducted a single arm-clinical retrospective study of stage II-III TE patients who underwent uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (Uni-VATS) over a 5-year period to evaluate the efficacy and safety of surgery on TE, so as to provide the evidence for the optimal clinical strategies.

Methods: Patients diagnosed as TE with withdrawal of anti-tuberculosis-VATS were retrospectively enrolled from January 2016 to December 2021.

Video-assisted subtotal parietal pleurectomy: an effective procedure for recurrent refractory pneumothorax.

Background: Refractory pneumothorax combined with diffuse emphysematous changes is an intractable problem requiring surgical treatment. Traditional bullectomy may result in long-term air leakage and has a risk of early recurrence. Pleurectomy is an effective pleurodesis procedure, which appears to be more suitable for these cases.

Immune infiltration landscape and immune-marker molecular typing of pulmonary fibrosis with pulmonary hypertension.

Background: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PH) secondary to pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is one of the most common complications in PF patients, it causes severe disease and usually have a poor prognosis. Whether the combination of PH and PF is a unique disease phenotype is unclear. We aimed to screen the key modules associated with PH-PF immune infiltration based on WGCNA and identify the hub genes for molecular typing.

Uniportal video-assisted versus open pneumonectomy: a propensity score-matched comparative analysis with short-term outcomes.

Objectives: Uniportal (U-VATS) pneumonectomy in lung cancer patients remains disputed in terms of oncological outcomes, and has not been compared to open approaches previously. We evaluated U-VATS versus open pneumonectomy at a high-volume centre.

Methods: Patients undergoing pneumonectomy for lung cancer between 2014 and 2018 were retrospectively reviewed and divided into two groups based on surgical approach.

Bronchial Sleeve Resection with Complete Pulmonary Preservation: A Single-Center Experience.

Purpose: Bronchial sleeve resection with complete pulmonary preservation (BSRCPP) is a classic surgical method for the treatment of benign or low-grade bronchial tumors. For elderly patients and patients with poor cardiopulmonary function, BSRCPP is particularly advantageous because some of these patients may not tolerate lobectomy or pneumonectomy. We retrospectively reviewed the clinical data of 20 patients who underwent BSRCPP during the past 7 years.

Comparison of Double Sleeve Lobectomy by Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) and Thoracotomy for NSCLC Treatment.

Background: With the development of the surgical technique and experience of surgeons, uniportal VATS has been used in double sleeve lobectomy to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This retrospective study aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of uniportal VATS in NSCLC treatment.

Methods: We reviewed 42 NSCLC patients who underwent double sleeve lobectomy in Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital from June 2015 to November 2017.

Lung cancers associated with cystic airspaces: CT features and pathologic correlation.

Objective: Lung cancer associated with cystic airspaces (LCCA) is a rare entity. The diagnosis and treatment is often delayed due to lack of comprehension of this disease. We aimed to elucidate LCCA's clinicopathological characteristics and investigate imaging features correlated with pathological invasiveness.

Subxiphoid versus intercostal uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for bilateral lung resections: a single-institution experience.

Objectives: Subxiphoid uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (SUVATS) is a technically difficult and challenging operation that can help decrease pain around the incision after traditional intercostal uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (IUVATS), and can also treat bilateral lesions through the same incision. We aimed to compare perioperative outcomes and pain scores after SUVATS and IUVATS in patients receiving synchronous treatment of bilateral lung lesions.

Methods: Patients who received SUVATS and IUVATS bilateral lung resections from September 2014 to February 2018 were analysed.

Uniportal Subcostal Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery: A Feasible Approach for a Challenging Middle Lobectomy in an Obese Patient.

Subcostal access is a novel approach for anatomical lung resection. To perform surgery via this access, specially designed long instruments are required. Subcostal access provides excellent visualization of the mediastinum and anterior lung hilum.

Behavior of primary tracheal glomus tumor, uncertain malignant potential subtype.

The behavior of the pathological subtypes of tracheal glomus tumor (benign, uncertain malignant potential UMP, malignant) is vague. In a 51-year-old gentleman, suffering from cough for 4 months, computed tomography scan showed a mass at lower third of the trachea and the bronchoscope revealed exophytic mass at the tracheal lumen. Segmental tracheal resection was done using special modified endotracheal tube for the distal lung ventilation.

[Effects of complete and incomplete sleep deprivation on immune function of mice].

Aim: To study the interaction between sleep deprivation and immune functions in mice.

Methods: To set up the uncompleted sleep deprivation of mice by means of lighting mimicked with whole day and dark box done with whole night for 2 weeks and to deprive the mice of sleep in the rotating cage for 24 h and 72 h. All mice are challenge with BSA before sleep deprivation.