In the study, Raza and colleagues reviewed data from 214 adults who underwent BLVR at a single center between January 2018 ...

Objectives: Though numerous studies have demonstrated the short-term efficacy of lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) in select patients with emphysema, the longer-term follow-up studies are just ...

PHILADELPPHIA (WPVI) -- When emphysema develops, the lungs lose their ability for two-way airflow. A strategic surgery helps patients breathe easier, and it is drawing people here from far and wide to ...

Staged LVRS offered similar hospital length of stay and complication rates as bilateral LVRS. Both approaches led to clinically significant improvements in pulmonary function. Notably, the staged ...

Among patients with end-stage emphysema, lung volume reduction surgery was associated with significant improvements in clinical and quality-of-life outcomes at 1 year after treatment, researchers ...

The first randomized controlled trial to compare two different lung volume reduction procedures for people with emphysema has found that both lead to similar improvements in lung function, ...

Doctors at Temple Health recently completed a study that led to a breakthrough treatment for severe emphysema, the first treatment of its kind approved by the FDA. Emphysema is a type of chronic ...

Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) can have a significantly beneficial effect in patients with severe emphysema, according to the first ever study to randomize emphysema patients to receive either ...

The patients selected for bronchoscopic lung volume reduction were younger compared with those who were not, the investigators said. Investigators from the Netherlands conducted a retrospective ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - Memorial Medical Center received recertification for its lung volume reduction surgery program. Lung volume reduction surgery offers an improvement for patients who suffer ...

At 12 months, the average improvement from baseline on the 10-point BODE index -- the study's primary endpoint -- was a similar -1.10 (SD 1.44) with LVRS and -0.82 (1.61) with BLVR (P=0.54), Sara ...

CHICAGO — Hospital volume affected the length of stay for patients with COPD who elect to have endobronchial valve placement, with some association with costs as well, according to an abstract ...