Current Thoracic Surgery
2017 , Vol 2 , Issue 1
Endobronchial coils – therapeutic innovations for severe emphysema
1Clinic of Pneumology, Internal Medicine Intensive Care, Respiratory Medicine and General Internal Medicine, Stuttgart, Germany
DOI :
10.26663/cts.2017.0008
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Emphysema is a frequent phenotypic manifestation of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases which does not
respond to pharmacotherapy. Interventional methods can provide relief for severely ill and highly symptomatic
emphysema patients. A quite well studied endoscopic method is the minimally invasive, non-surgical
procedure with coils. Coils are small, shape-memory Nitinol implants designed to gather and compress lung
tissue, re-tension the diseased airway network and increase the elastic recoil in the emphysematous lung. To
date, the positive benefit-risk ratio of coils is documented by several well-designed randomized clinical trials.
Keywords :
obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, volume reduction, endobronchial coils