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AMJ Annual Report 2020

We are glad to present a brief introduction of AMJ’s progress in 2020 here. In 2020, AMJ has published 45 articles in total, among which 54% are review articles, 11% are case reports, and 11% are editorials. AMJ authors come from many parts of the world, including USA, Italy, UK, China, Austria, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Japan, etc. There are also several special series under progress.

Malignant Pleural Effusion

With the widespread use of video-assisted thoracic surgical procedures, the focus of the clinicians in patients with malignant pleural effusion (MPE) moved from diagnostics to most efficient therapeutic options that are expected to provide both a survival benefit and quality of life. The decision-making process in practice is influenced by different causes of MPE - primary lung cancer, extrathoracic malignancies or pleural mesothelioma.

Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Despite the changing landscape of treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD), coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) remains a safe and effective option for treatment of multivessel obstructive CAD. Since its introduction in mid 1960s, CABG has evolved tremendously making it the only evidence-backed standard of care for treatment of CAD with well-established symptomatic and prognostic benefits. This series is dedicated to providing an overview of CABG covering the various surgical techniques in particular and the evolution of CABG in general. Articles are contributed by world experts and opinion leaders and expected to provide an insight to the readers into the past, pre-sent and future of CABG.

Series on Radiation Urologic Reconstruction

This Series "Radiation Urologic Reconstruction" is edited by Dr. Lucas Wiegand from Department of Urology, University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA.

Rare Genitourinary Malignancies

Rare genitourinary malignancies remain a diverse and often challenging subset of tumor types for clinicians to care for. There are a number of reasons for the resulting challenges imparted in caring for these patients including the infrequent number of cases cared for within large healthcare systems as well as the paucity of prospective studies aimed at redefining the treatment standards for these poorly funded malignancies attracting limited industry support. This series highlights exciting advances which have been made in caring for many of these tumors and encompass the topics of adrenocortical carcinoma, extra-gonadal germ cell, melanoma, penile, sarcoma, scrotal, and urethral cancers.

Bladder Cancer

Urinary bladder cancer (BCa) accounts for about 7% of all new cancers in the United States with 81,190 estimated new cases and 17,240 deaths in 2018. Approximately 75% of the new diagnoses BCa will be non-muscle-invasive BCa (NMIBC) affected by recurrence and progression rates of approximately 60% and 20%, respectively. Several unmet questions have been raised in the urological community regarding BCa. In this series on BCa we collected a series of articles treating some of the most important issue for the urological community.

AME entered an official partnership with Publons to enhance wide-ranging recognition for reviewers

AME Publishing Company entered an official partnership with Publons, a product of Clarivate Analytic Company (which owns Web of Science, EndNote, ScholarOne, among many others), as of April 2020. Around 60 AME journals’ peer review systems are now integrated seamlessly into the Publons platform (https://publons.com/about/home). The partnership was done to recognize our expert peer reviewers spontaneously for their review contribution.

New Frontiers and Technologies in Urology (Ongoing)

This Series "New Frontiers and Technologies in Urology" is edited by Dr. Guglielmo Mantica from University of Genova, Italy.

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Letter to the Editor

COVID-19 pandemic should be an arena of international cooperation for a shared future

Chenyu Sun, Qin Zhou, Jianwei Xu, Junqi Liu, Zhihua Han, Xin Chen, Boyuan Su, Liang Gao

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2020;

(25 December 2020)

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Magnetic snakes subsonic

Wen-Xiang Zhu, Wei Liu

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2020;

(25 December 2020)

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Case Report

Spindle cell schwannoma in thoracic spinal cord: case report

Shin-Jae Kim, Sang-Ha Shin, Sang-Ho Lee, Junseok Bae

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2020;

(25 December 2020)

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Utilizing a neurosurgical hydrogel sealant (DuraSeal sealant) for the closure of bronchopleural fistulas: a case report of a novel technique

Venu Gopal Pasricha, Christoph T. Hutchinson, David M. DiBardino

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2020;

(25 December 2020)

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Review Article

Hybrid coronary revascularization

Ibrahim Gadelkarim, Michael A. Borger, Piroze M. Davierwala

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2020;

(25 December 2020)

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Review Article

Indication and prognostic value of second transurethral resection in bladder cancer patients

Pietro Grande, Thomas Seisen, Morgan Roupret

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2020;

(25 December 2020)

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Bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting: an update

Cristiano Spadaccio, Mario F. L. Gaudino

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2020;

(25 December 2020)

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Conventional coronary artery bypass grafting

Nikolaos A. Papakonstantinou

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2020;

(25 December 2020)

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Timing of treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer in the neo-adjuvant chemotherapy era

Giovanni Motterle, R. Jeffrey Karnes

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2020;

(25 December 2020)

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Editorial

Serendipity and thinking outside the box in cardiovascular research

Bernhard Wernly, Moritz Mirna, Peter Jirak, Kristen Kopp, Alexander E. Berezin, Michael Lichtenauer

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2020;

(25 December 2020)

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Tension pneumopericardium

Lauren Raff, Rebecca Maine

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2020;

(25 September 2020)

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Editorial Commentary

Effective treatment with macrolide and ethambutol for mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease

Masashi Ito, Yasuhiko Koga, Noriaki Sunaga, Toshitaka Maeno

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2020;

(25 September 2020)

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Case Report

Clear cell hidradenoma of the foot: a case report with literature review

Darshan Gandhi, Kriti Ahuja, Pankaj Nepal, Harpreet Sawhney, Pranav Sharma, Ruben Kier

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2020;

(25 September 2020)

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Case Report

Main d’accoucheur (obstetrician’s hand) after thyroidectomy: a video-illustrated case report

Sergio Gaspar Figueiredo, Gaëtan-Romain Joliat

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2020;

(25 September 2020)

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Review Article

Chronic post sternotomy pain: the role of sternal wire removal—a review

Elsayed Elmistekawy, Ahmed Attia

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2020;

(25 September 2020)

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Review Article

Primary lung cancer and pleural effusion—diagnostic and therapeutic approach

Georgia Hardavella, Ioannis Karampinis

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2020;

(25 September 2020)

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Review Article

The impact of transurethral en bloc resection of bladder tumour on pathological and oncological outcomes

Vinson Wai-Shun Chan, Chi-Fai Ng, Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh

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2020;

(25 September 2020)

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Review Article

Multiple and total arterial coronary artery bypass grafting

Arnaldo Dimagli, Umberto Benedetto

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2020;

(25 September 2020)

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Review Article

Updates in the management of benign and malignant scrotal conditions: issues on surgical ablation and reconstruction

Matthias D. Hofer, Gregory A. Dumanian, João Felício, Francisco E. Martins

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2020;

(25 September 2020)

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Original Article

Etiology of priapism in the community: local factors can help guide prevention and savings

George Wayne, Miriam Weisberg, Alberto Monreal, Elias Atri, Vivian Wong, Alan M. Nieder, Jorge Caso, Alan S. Polackwich

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(25 September 2020)

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Review Article

The impact of robotic surgery in bladder cancer patients

Francesco Greco, Nicola Pesenti, Alberto Vismara, Lorenzo Tessa, Rocca Lisanti, Luigi Domanico, Riccardo Farci, Emanuele Micheli, Vincenzo Maria Altieri

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Surgical management of the localized renal mass: risk and benefit trade-offs and surgical approach considerations

Jeffrey C. Morrison, Bryn M. Launer, Zuhair A. Barqawi, Simon P. Kim

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Conduits in coronary artery bypass grafting

Salah E. Altarabsheh, Adil Muhammad Sheikh, Sidra Ilyas, Sajjad Raza, Salil V. Deo

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Narrative review of the surgical management of high-risk upper tract urothelial carcinoma

Jonathan Kopel, Pranav Sharma

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A narrative review of redo coronary artery bypass grafting

Lokeswara Rao Sajja

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Pleural carcinosis caused by extrathoracic malignancies

Marcello Migliore, Misel Milosevic, Bojan Koledin

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Management of locally advanced renal cell carcinoma

Samuel G. Antoine, Zachary Pfeifer, Adam M. Carroll, T. Brett Reece, Granville L. Lloyd

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A narrative review of the surgical principles of primary and post- chemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for non- seminomatous germ cell tumors

Nadia V. Halstead, Nicholas G. Cost

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Predictors of pathologically aggressive prostate cancer and surgical management

Scott M. Brockman, Srinivas Vourganti

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The past, the present and the future of #UroSoMe: a narrative review

Daniele Castellani, Rodrigo Donalisio da Silva, Marcela Pelayo-Nieto, Edgar Linden-Castro, William Lay Keat Ong, Zainal Adwin, Yiloren Tanidir, Emanuele Rubilotta, Marilena Gubbiotti, Giacomo Maria Pirola, Marcelo Langer Wroclawski, Vineet Gauhar, Jon Mikel Iñarritu, Jeffrey J. Leow, Hegel Trujillo Santamaria, Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh, on behalf of the #UroSoMe Working Group

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Narrative review of principles of salvage radical prostatectomy

Danica N. May, William P. Parker

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Etiopathogenesis of malignant pleural effusion

Dragana Jovanovic

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Narrative review on the comparative effectiveness of robotic and open radical cystectomy for bladder cancer

Rodrigo Rodrigues Pessoa, Peter Boxley, Janet Baack Kukreja

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Urinary diversion and reconstruction following radical cystectomy for bladder cancer: a narrative review

Daniel A. Igel, Connor J. Chestnut, Eugene K. Lee

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Challenging and opportunities in clinical implementation of circulating cardiac biomarkers in diabetes mellitus: the narrative review

Alexander E. Berezin, Alexander A. Berezin

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Comprehensive narrative review of segmentectomy for lung cancer

Karishma Kodia, Dao M. Nguyen, Nestor R. Villamizar

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Research advance in tumor specific antigens: a narrative review

Yusuke Takahashi, Ayako Demachi-Okamura, Yuko Oya, Takeo Nakada, Noriaki Sakakura, Hiroaki Kuroda, Hirokazu Matsushita

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Narrative review of cytokines and cell surface markers in the tumor microenvironment of stage I lung cancer

Ogheneyoma Akpoviroro

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Narrative review of the prognostic significance of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment of stage I lung cancer

Ogheneyoma Akpoviroro, Kei Suzuki

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Narrative review of the pathologic assessment of immune response in lung cancer

Hanqiao Zheng, Ilyas Yambayev, Artem Shevtsov, Eric J. Burks

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Evaluation and management of urinary retention after pelvic radiation therapy: a narrative review

Zachary R. Burns, Vijay M. Vishwanath, Brian Ceballos, J. Patrick Selph

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Case Report

Pulmonary tuberculosis with venous thromboembolism as an unusual presentation of occult pancreatic cancer: a case report

Yin Yin Tan, Shaifulamir Shuib, Azizon Othman, Md Yusri Md Yusof

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Editorial

Malignant pleural effusion—still an actual issue

Dragan Subotic

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New frontiers and technologies in urology

Guglielmo Mantica

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Letter to the Editor

Gravitational ischemia in the brain—may explain why we sleep, and why we dream

J. Howard Jaster

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Pyoderma gangrenosum in ulcerative colitis

Meng-You Zeng, Wei Liu

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Plasma cell balanitis

Gavin Cardwell, Alyson Brinker

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Baastrup’s disease: beyond kissing spine

Catarina Brito, Sandra Matias

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Review Article

Bronchial thermoplasty: an update for the interventional pulmonologist

José Cárdenas-García, George Cheng, Mario Castro

Editorial

Abiraterone survival benefit is independent of pain, prostate-specific antigen and Gleason sum in men with chemo-naïve metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (analysis of COU-AA-302)

Panagiotis J. Vlachostergios, Giuseppe Galletti, Scott T. Tagawa

Does increased expression of glucocorticoid receptor support application of antagonists to this receptor for the treatment of castration resistant prostate cancer?

Yukiyoshi Hirayama, Marianne D. Sadar

Immune tolerant HBV and HCC: time to revise our tolerance levels for therapy?

Kali Zhou, Norah Terrault

Management of sciatica: a shared-decision

Haley N. N. Moulton, Jon D. Lurie

Targeting ELK1: a wELKome addition to the prostate cancer armamentarium

Jelani C. Zarif, Emmanuel S. Antonarakis

MicroRNAs and cholangiocarcinoma: elucidating the effects of tiny giants

Vik Meadows, Heather Francis

A Review of 10 Years of Data from an External Quality Assurance Program for Antiphospholipid Antibodies: No Evidence for Improved aCL and β2GPI Assay Standardization.

Louise Anne Wienholt, Alexander Richardson, Richard C Wong, Kristie Chapman, Frederick J Lee

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