lung volume reduction
Surgical approaches for lung volume reduction in emphysema
... Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is recommended in both British and international guidelines because trials have shown improvement in survival in ...
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Comparison of distinctive models for calculating an interlobar emphysema heterogeneity index in patients prior to endoscopic lung volume reduction
... Furthermore, there are factors other than the emphysema heterogeneity that affect the outcome of ELVR such as collat- eral ventilation, lobar perfusion, and air trapping. However, since these other factors affect all ...
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A new functional method to choose the target lobe for lung volume reduction in emphysema – comparison with the conventional densitometric method
... of volume changes between lobes with almost equal inspiratory densitometric ...for lung volume reduction would have been the upper ...mean lung density; Ul, upper ...
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Lung volume reduction for severe emphysema: do we need a scalpel or a scope?
... emphysematous lung taking advantage of collateral ventilation, thereby reducing ...and volume [43, ...emphysematous lung transplant recipients immediately before explantation to demonstrate ...
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Lung Volume Reduction following Recurrent Pneumonia: An Unusual Finding in a COPD Patient
... whose lung function paradoxically improved following recurrent pneumonia, without lung volume reduction surgery ...her lung function and oxygen requirement showed marked ...decreased ...
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Effectiveness of bronchoscopic lung volume reduction using unilateral endobronchial valve: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... A literature search was performed using eight domestic research databases, including KoreaMed, and core databases such as MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library up to December 2013. Key question and patient ...
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Clinical and radiological outcome following pneumothorax after endoscopic lung volume reduction with valves
... Efficacy data showed that pneumothorax is not associ- ated with a clinically relevant improvement in the majority of patients, but it impairs the clinical status only in a minor- ity. Therefore, the relatively high risk ...
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Lung Volume Reduction Surgery for Respiratory Failure in Infants With Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
... Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) can be performed in patients with severe emphysematous ...right lung was removed via sternotomy and right hemiclamshell ...right lung via ...
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BioGlue and Peri-strips in lung volume reduction surgery: pilot randomised controlled trial
... One of the major complications of stapled LVRS is pro- longed air leak which occurs in 50–90% of the patients [3]. A number of adjuncts to prevent air leak have been advocated which include bovine pericardium, Gore-Tex ...
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Attitudes and access to lung volume reduction surgery for COPD: a survey by the British Thoracic Society
... with lung volume reduction strategies in ...deliver lung volume reduction either more safely or in different emphysema phenotypes, 21 22 more dif fi ...
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BioGlue and Peri strips in lung volume reduction surgery : pilot randomised controlled trial
... One of the major complications of stapled LVRS is pro- longed air leak which occurs in 50–90% of the patients [3]. A number of adjuncts to prevent air leak have been advocated which include bovine pericardium, Gore-Tex ...
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Xenobiotic metabolizing enzyme gene polymorphisms predict response to lung volume reduction surgery
... Canadian Lung Volume Reduction Study and the Overholt-Blue Cross Emphysema Surgery Trial, one of the largest LVRS trials outside of NETT, only 58 patients were randomized to surgery ...
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Clinical and quantitative computed tomography predictors of response to endobronchial lung volume reduction therapy using coils
... Objectives: Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction using coils (LVRC) is a well-known treatment option for severe emphysema. The purpose of this study was to identify quantitative computed tomography ...
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Microbiological airway colonization in COPD patients with severe emphysema undergoing endoscopic lung volume reduction
... Background: Endoscopic lung volume reduction (eLVR) is a therapeutic option for selected patients with COPD and severe emphysema. Infectious exacerbations are serious events in these vulnerable ...
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Significant lung volume reduction with endobronchial valves in a patient despite the presence of microcollaterals masked by low-flow Chartis phenotype
... bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) using endobronchial valves (EBVs) depend on the absence of collateral ventilation (CV) between the target and adjunct ...reduce lung volume or ...
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Evidence of mycobacterial disease in COPD patients with lung volume reduction surgery; the importance of histological assessment of specimens: A cohort study
... Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) and bullectomy are surgical procedures directed at COPD patients in whom optimal medical treatment has failed to reduce their symp- ...improve lung ...
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Several clinical interests regarding lung volume reduction surgery for severe emphysema: meta-analysis and systematic review of randomized controlled trials
... of lung issue [2-5]. Lung volume reduction sur- gery(LVRS), which was initially introduced in 1957 by Brantigan [6] and developed by Cooper in 1993 [7], resects diseased and non-function ...
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<p>The Efficacy of Lung Volume Reduction Coil Treatment in Patients with Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Type II Respiratory Failure</p>
... The PneumRx volume reduction coil is an implantable, shape memory Nitinol device. The system (RePneu ® , Lung Volume Reduction Coil System, PneumRx, Inc. Mountain View, CA USA) consists ...
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Review of lung sealant technologies for lung volume reduction in pulmonary disease
... for lung volume reduction (LVR) in emphysema were used in the past 2 decades aiming to close the airways serving the hyperinflated lung regions and to allow the gas in the more distal bullas ...
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Original Article Uniportal thoracoscopic lung volume reduction surgery using enhanced recovery protocol for patients with diffuse emphysema: a midterm follow-up
... Background: Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) is effective for selected patients with heterogeneous emphysema, however, reports about its effect on homogeneous cases is ...resected lung ...
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