COPD and Lung Health

Surgical Interventions and Therapies in COPD

Lung-Volume-Reduction Surgery (LVRS) and lung transplantation advances provide COPD people with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease therapy a better quality of life. The number of surgical operations is now growing at an almost exponential rate. To limit air leakage via the staple holes, the surgeries were performed using a middle sternotomy and a linear stapling device connected with strips of bovine pericardium.