TABLE 1

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