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Exhale airway bypass stents for emphysema
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  1. Zaid Zoumot
  1. Correspondence to Dr Zaid Zoumot, Interventional Bronchoscopy Clinical Research Fellow, The Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK; zzoumot{at}doctors.org.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201372

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    Existing treatment options for severe homogenous emphysema are limited, with dynamic airways collapse and gas trapping minimising the benefits of drug therapy. There has been interest in therapies that address these features more directly. The bronchoscopic lung volume reduction with Exhale airway stents for emphysema trial study group recently reported their findings in The Lancet. The group undertook a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, sham-controlled trial at 38 specialist respiratory centres worldwide. Three hundred and fifteen patients …

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