Description: Patient Care. LUNG VOLUME REDUCTION SURGERY. Facing a national shortage of donor lungs for transplantationmany people with end-stage emphysema need alternative treatments not only to breathe easier but to live longer. longer. Lung volume reduction surgery (reduction pneumoplasty) is or minimally-invasive approach called "videoscopic" surgery. In volume reductiona portion of the diseased lung is

Category: Minimally Invasive Lung Volume Reduction

Url: http://www.fammed.sunysb.edu/surgery/LVRS.html

Date: Oct 7, 2005

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