COPD is a highly prevalent, chronic and irreversible obstructive airway disease without
curative treatment. Standard therapeutic strategies, both non-pharmacological and …

Interventional pulmonary medicine has developed as a subspecialty focused on the
management of patients with complex thoracic disease. Leveraging minimally invasive …

BLVR using one-way endobronchial valves has become a guideline treatment offered in
specialized intervention centres for a specific subgroup of COPD patients. Recent studies …

Purpose To evaluate the operability and safety of bronchoscopic domestic one-way
endobronchial valves (EBV) on animals. Methods Nine pigs were randomly assigned (2: 1) …

Background Endobronchial valve (EBV) therapy, a validated method for bronchoscopic lung
volume reduction (BLVR) in severe emphysema, has been explored for persistent air-leak …

Introduction: Endobronchial valve (EBV) treatment has been shown to be beneficial for
patients with severe emphysema. The forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) was found to …

Background Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) has supplanted surgery in the
treatment of patients with advanced emphysema, but not all patients qualify for it. Our study …

In recent decades, bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) has shown to be a
valuable therapeutic option for a select group of patients with severe emphysema and …

Für Patienten mit schwerem Lungenemphysem sind nach Ausschöpfung der konservativen
Therapie die weiteren Behandlungsmöglichkeiten sehr begrenzt. Die Lungenvolu …