New treatment stage emphysema

New treatment stage emphysema
Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital by lung volume reduction for the treatment of end-stage emphysema and achieved good results.

Emphysema is a common chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The treatment of emphysema past has been considered as a medical area, only to end-stage disease will be considered in line lung transplantation, but because of the lack of for so many end-stage emphysema patients waiting for transplants in the process of death. The late 1990s on the international emergence of a new concept of lung reduction surgery and surgical methods, the operation has achieved good effect. Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital thoracic surgeon Professor Zhao Fengrui carried out in China earlier lung volume reduction for the treatment of end-stage emphysema, has now been completed and more cases, achieved satisfactory clinical results. Professor Zhao in the "Chinese Journal of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases," published an article in the domestic first comprehensive introduction to lung volume reduction for the treatment of end-stage emphysema.