Bronchoscopic interventions for severe COPD.
Year: 2014
Type: review
Abstract: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes severe handicap among smokers. Most patients have to remain under continuous oxygen therapy at home. Moreover, respiratory infections are very common among these patients and vaccination is obligatory against influenza. Emphysema and bronchiectasis are observed with computed tomography (CT) and in several situations these parenchymal damages are responsible for pneumothorax in one case and pseudomonas aeroginosa infection. Novel mini-invasive techniques are used currently for emphysema treatments which are described extensively throughout our current work.
Source: PubMed Central
Authors: Robert F Browning, Scott Parrish, Saiyad Sarkar, William Krimsky, J Francis Turner, Konstantinos Zarogoulidis, Ioanna Kougioumtzi, Georgios Dryllis, Ioannis Kioumis, Georgia Pitsiou, Nikolaos Machairiotis, Nikolaos Katsikogiannis, Nikolaos Courcoutsakis, Athanasios Madesis, Konstantinos Diplaris, Theodoros Karaiskos, Paul Zarogoulidis
Institutions: Democritus University of Thrace, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, G. Papanikolaou General Hospital, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Western Regional Medical Center, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Laiko General Hospital of Athens
Language: English
Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W19737720