… lung volume reduction therapy by using segmentally inserted Nitinol coils in patients with
severe COPD, characterized by heterogeneous emphysema. … with heterogeneous emphysema …

… was a multicentre 2:1 randomised study comparing the safety and efficacy of unilateral
endobronchial valves versus standard medical care in patients with heterogeneous emphysema. …

… preferentially to candidates with more heterogeneous emphysema may have influenced
our results as well as those of other retrospective studies [2, 6, 11]. Prospective confirmation of …

… by lung volume reduction surgery in selected patients with homogeneous emphysema …
for several years were analyzed in comparison to patients with heterogeneous emphysema. …

… in patients with homogeneous and heterogeneous emphysema, in the perioperative period
and … with heterogeneous emphysema had a slightly better chance of surviving without lung …

… the feasibility and short-term functional outcome after bronchoscopic lung-volume
reduction performed with one-way valves in patients with severe heterogeneous emphysema. …

… classification we showed that patients with intermediately heterogeneous or even
homogeneous emphysema had clinical improvement at 3 months after the intervention 5, 6. The …

… after lung volume reduction surgery for severe emphysema: … of lung volume reduction surgery
for severe emphysema. Eur … after lung volume reduction surgery for severe emphysema: …

… heterogeneous emphysema, FEV 1 increased even more (ie, by 63%; Table 3), which is
close to the mean increase in FEV 1 of 60% in 90 patients with heterogeneous emphysema …

… (Citation23)(24)(25) An alternative threshold for emphysema definition of -960 HU has also
… homogeneous or heterogeneous emphysema, we defined heterogeneous emphysema as a …