Devices for maintaining surgically created openings

Devices and methods are directed to improving the gaseous exchange in a lung of an individual having, for instance, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. More particularly, conduits may be deployed in the lung to maintain collateral openings (or channels) surgically created through airway walls. Th...

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Hauptverfasser: TANAKA DON, KEAST THOMAS, REDMOND RUSS, KAPLAN GARY, LOOMAS BRYAN, COLE CARY, SHRINER KELLY, KARABEY HALIL, VIDA CLAUDE, THOMPSON DAVID, WILLINK MICHAEL, COLLINSON MIKE, BIGGS MICHAEL
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Zusammenfassung:Devices and methods are directed to improving the gaseous exchange in a lung of an individual having, for instance, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. More particularly, conduits may be deployed in the lung to maintain collateral openings (or channels) surgically created through airway walls. This tends to facilitate both the exchange of oxygen ultimately into the blood and decompress hyper-inflated lungs.