Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is common and has significant morbidity mortality as the fourth leading cause of death in United States. In many patients, particularly those with emphysema, COPD characterized by markedly increased residual volume contributing to exertional dyspnea. Current therapies have limited efficacy. Surgical resection diseased areas lung reduce was effective identified subgroups but also had suboptimal cost effectiveness. Lung-volume reduction, using bronchoscopic techniques, shown substantial benefits a broader patient population less mortality. This review meant spread awareness about lung-volume reduction promote its consideration early referral for patients advanced emphysema frequently encountered both primary care physicians specialists. A search conducted on PubMed (MEDLINE), EMbase, Cochrane library original studies, following keywords: “lung-volume reduction.” “endobronchial valves,” “intrabronchial “bronchoscopic reduction,” “endoscopic We included reports from systematic reviews, narrative clinical trials, observational studies. Two reviewers evaluated potential references. total 27 references were our review. Included studies report experience diagnosis treatment emphysema; case non-English or non-Spanish excluded.