“Review of Recent Important Papers in Interventional Pulmonology”

Interventional pulmonology is an innovative branch of pulmonary medicine that uses minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to airway, parenchymal and pleural disease. The authors review recent high impact trials including randomized trials describing the use of endobronchial coils and valves in the management of severe emphysema. We also present novel approaches to the palliation of malignant and benign pleural effusion including increasing the frequency of drainage and instillation of talc via tunneled pleural catheters.
Source: Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Tags: Thoracic – State of the Art Source Type: research