Surgical Approaches to Treating Emphysema: Lung Volume Reduction Surgery, Bullectomy, and Lung Transplantation

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 592-608

  Marchetti, Nathaniel ^a   Criner, Gerard J ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

bullectomy; COPD; emphysema; lung transplantation; lung volume reduction surgery

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

AIR LEAK; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREATHING PATTERN; BULLECTOMY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART; HUMAN; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; OXYGENATION; PATIENT HISTORY OF SURGERY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCINTIGRAPHY; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; COMPLICATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DYSPNEA; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMONECTOMY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84938524215     PISSN: 10693424     EISSN: 10989048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1556064     Document Type: Article

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