ATS 2012, SAN FRANCISCO – A tiny, resilient metal wire designed to gather and compress diseased lung tissue may offer relief to patients with severe heterogeneous emphysema, a subtype of the ...

Endobronchial valves that allow air to escape from a pulmonary lobe but not enter it can induce a reduction in lobar volume that may thereby improve lung function and exercise tolerance in ...

"We are anticipating further clinical data evaluating use of the coils in both homogeneous and heterogeneous emphysema, to develop and refine the patient selection criteria for this technology." ...

Patients were eligible if they had significant airflow obstruction that limited breathing, significant hyperinflation, and were considered to have a heterogeneous emphysema pattern with intact ...

September 17, 2007 (Stockholm) -- An implantable endobronchial valve has been found to significantly improve lung function measures and quality of life for patients with emphysema. The valve is ...

In "A Multicenter RCT of Zephyr® Endobronchial Valve Treatment in Heterogeneous Emphysema (TRANSFORM)," European researchers report results from the first multicenter randomized, controlled trial ...

"Our study shows the device is effective in treating both homogeneous disease, where emphysema is distributed evenly throughout the lungs, and heterogeneous disease, where emphysema is isolated to ...

A multicenter randomized controlled trial of Zephyr endobronchial valve treatment in heterogeneous emphysema (TRANSFORM). Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2017; 196(12), 1535–1543. 5. Valipour ...

randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of the Zephyr Endobronchial Valve out to one year in patients with severe heterogeneous emphysema with little to no collateral ...

InterVapor uses heated water vapor to achieve bronchoscopic lung volume reduction in patients with heterogeneous upper lobe emphysema. According to The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ...

It was previously thought that only patients with heterogeneous emphysema, where the disease is isolated to specific areas of the lungs, could benefit from lung volume reduction with endobronchial ...

A tiny, resilient metal wire designed to gather and compress diseased lung tissue may offer relief to patients with severe heterogeneous emphysema, a subtype of the disease that involves specific ...