Bronchoscopic approaches to lung volume reduction
Valve therapy: Zephyr and Spiration |
Lung volume reduction coils: PneumRx10 |
Airway bypass stents (abandoned due to lack of efficacy and high complication rate)11 |
Bronchoscopic thermal vapor ablation (inducing scarring in the diseased airways leading to lung volume reduction)12 |
Biologic or polymeric lung volume reduction: fibrin-thombin mixtures, glue, polymeric foam sealant (the AeriSeal System)13-16 |