All Articles

Review Article 
A narrative review of the social determinants of lung cancer screening: knowledge gaps and controversies
Sakib M. Adnan, Kristine Chin, Grace X. Ma, Cherie P. Erkmen
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
41  
Review Article 
Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for lung cancer—current practices and outcomes: a narrative review
Félix H. Savoie-White, Charles Antoine Menier, Arthur Vieira, Paula A. Ugalde
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
40  
Review Article 
Pulmonary hemodynamics and lung surgery: a narrative review
Etienne J. Couture, Christoph G. Nabzdyk
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
39  
Review Article 
Atelectasis in one lung ventilation: the good, the bad, and the ugly: a narrative review
Jean S. Bussières, Edouard Marques
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
38  
Review Article 
Prehabilitation and enhanced recovery after thoracic surgery: a narrative review
Azza Al-Abri, Danielle Sophia Shafiepour
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
37  
Review Article 
Perioperative pain management for thoracic surgery: a narrative review of the literature
Ariane Clairoux, Rami Issa, Marie-Ève Bélanger, Robert Urbanowicz, Philippe Richebé, Véronique Brulotte
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
36  
Original Article 
Developing an artificial intelligence-based clinical decision-support system for chest tube management: user evaluations & patient perspectives of the Chest Tube Learning Synthesis and Evaluation Assistant (CheLSEA) system
Adnan El Adou Mekdachi, Jamie Strain, Stuart G. Nicholls, Jharna Rathod, Mohsen Alayche, Virginia Maria Ferreira Resende, William Klement, Nathalie Japkowicz, Sebastien Gilbert
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
35  
Original Article 
Patient perspectives on open vs. minimally invasive thoracic surgery (PPOMITS): survey and experience from a single academic institution
Daniel Jones, Urmila Bhattacharyya, Ching Yeung, Andre Martel, Mary Hanna, Ameera Moledina, Andrew J. E. Seely, Donna E. Maziak, Sudhir R. Sundaresan, Patrick J. Villeneuve, Sebastien Gilbert
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
34  
Editorial 
Recent advances in perioperative care in thoracic surgery and anesthesia
George Rakovich, Jean S. Bussières
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
33  
Review Article 
State of the art and operative technique for spray cryotherapy for central airway obstruction (CAO)—a narrative review
Mirza Zain Baig, Joanna F. Weber, Zaid Muslim, Al Haitham Al Shetawi, Faiz Y. Bhora
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
32  
Review Article 
Airway surgery in children under extracorporeal circulatory support
Arun Beeman, Madhavan Ramaswamy, Alex Robertson, James Ip, Nagarajan Muthialu
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
31  
Review Article 
Cannulation strategies for intraoperative mechanical cardio-respiratory support in general thoracic surgery
João Santos Silva, Jorge Pinheiro Santos, Paulo Almeida Calvinho, Anne Olland, Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
30  
Review Article 
Additional pulmonary resection after pneumonectomy under ECMO support: a narrative review and representative case report
Dominik V. Flury, Sarah A. Deckarm, Gregor J. Kocher, Ralph A. Schmid, Jon A. Lutz
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
29  
Review Article 
Indications, timing and coagulation management for tracheostomy during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support
Massimo Baiocchi, Maria Benedetto, Vittorio Ferrari
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
28  
Review Article 
Anesthesiological management of major thoracic surgery with intraoperative ECMO support in adults
Stephan Ziegeler, Stefan Fischer
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
27  
Review Article 
Non-elective thoracic surgery in patients supported by veno-venous (VV) or veno-arterial (VA) extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
Michael Ried, Laura Sommerauer, Till Markowiak, Sigrid Wiesner, Thomas Mueller, Alois Philipp, Christoph Unterbuchner, Marcus Creutzenberg, Dirk Lunz, Hans-Stefan Hofmann
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
26  
Review Article 
Surgical treatment of locally advanced T4 non-small cell lung cancer with mechanical circulatory support
Giuseppe Mangiameli, Emanuele Voulaz, Alberto Testori, Umberto Cariboni, Marco Alloisio
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
25  
Review Article 
Cardiopulmonary bypass and cancer dissemination and progression: myth reality, enigma, puzzle?
Li Siyuan, Danilo Tadao Wada, Paulo Roberto Barbosa Evora
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
24  
Original Article 
Surgical risk and survival impact of octogenarian lung cancer patients compared to those of younger patients undergoing surgery
Haruaki Hino, Takahiro Utsumi, Natsumi Maru, Hiroshi Matsui, Yohei Taniguchi, Tomohito Saito, Tomohiro Murakawa
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
23  
Review Article 
Robotic right upper lobe segmentectomy
Stephanie H. Chang, Travis C. Geraci, Amie J. Kent, Harvey Pass, Costas Bizekis, Michael Zervos, Robert J. Cerfolio
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
22  
Review Article 
Immunosuppression in lung transplantation: a narrative review
Benjamin J. Atkinson, Nirmal S. Sharma
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
21  
Review Article 
ECMO in lung transplant: pre, intra and post-operative utilization—a narrative review
Jose P. Garcia, Cristina L. Ashworth, Chadi A. Hage
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
20  
Review Article 
Narrative review of the evolution of lung transplant
George Makdisi, Alex R. Cedeño-Rodríguez
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery  
2023;
5:
18