Surgical and bronchoscopic pulmonary function-improving procedures in lung emphysema.

ABSTRACT: COPD is a highly prevalent, chronic and irreversible obstructive airway disease without curative treatment. Standard therapeutic strategies, both non-pharmacological and pharmacological, have only limited effects on lung function parameters of patients with severe disease. Despite optimal pharmacological treatment, many patients with severe COPD still have a high burden of dyspnoea and a poor quality of life. If these patients have severe lung emphysema, with hyperinflation as the driver of symptoms and exercise intolerance, lung volume reduction may be an effective treatment with a significant impact on lung function, exercise capacity and quality of life. Currently, different lung volume reduction approaches, both surgical and bronchoscopic, have shown encouraging results and have been i

SUBMITTER: Everaerts S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10731473 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature