Laying stress on study of interventional lung volume reduction / 介入放射学杂志

ABSTRACT

The interventional lung volume reduction is developed from the lung volume reduction surgery and endoscopically non-surgical lung volume reduction. It is a X-ray guided transcatheter therapeutic technique, involving intra-bronchial embolization of the target pulmonary lobes with bleomycin(or pure alcohol)-lipiodol emulsion and the proximal target bronchial occlusion with PMMA simultaneously. A stable effect of pulmonary fibrosis and lung volume reduction could thus be obtained with the name of functional pulmonary lobectomy. Although this interventional therapeutic technique is now still on progress of animal experiment but having special potency of clinical application and fruitful furture.