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Recently emerging techniques have been evolved to treat patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction for advanced emphysema had proved its efficacy to treat the problem of lung hyperinflation and its consequences in this group of patients, in the same time there was less complications compared to surgical lung volume reduction. During the last few months, a novel bronchoscopic treatment for chronic bronchitis patients has been introduced as the first in human trial. Up to date techniques used for bronchoscopic treatment of emphysema and chronic bronchitis will be discussed in this review.