LUNG-VOLUME REDUCTION AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION FOR COPD

Authors
PARIENTE R
Citation
R. Pariente, LUNG-VOLUME REDUCTION AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION FOR COPD, Bulletin de l'Academie nationale de medecine, 182(6), 1998, pp. 1173-1181
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
Bulletin de l'Academie nationale de medecine → ACNP
ISSN journal
00014079
Volume
182
Issue
6
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1173 - 1181
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-4079(1998)182:6<1173:LRALTF>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
Within 15 years, the prognosis of chronic obstructive respiratory fail ure has been deeply modified by advances in surgical treatment. In cas e of emphysema, lung volume reduction permits an improvement in the fu nctional status in a significant number of patients, at least for seve ral years. Moreover, lung transplantation, mainly single lung transpla ntation provide currently an actuarial survival rate of 50 % at five y ears.