Regional ventilation distribution in patients with severe emphysema determined by electrical impedance tomography before and after endoscopic valve therapy for lung volume reductio
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- J43J44EmphysemaOther chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Registration Number
- DRKS00009991
- Lead Sponsor
- Klinik für Anästhesiologie und Operative Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 20
Inclusion Criteria
Written informed consent
- already authorised indication and information to patient about the endoscopic valve therapy
- Age = 18 and = 80 years
- COPD with emphysema requiring intervention
Exclusion Criteria
- Withdrawal of informed consent
- Severe obesity
- Chest deformities
- Severe instable comorbidities
- Severe pulmonary hypertension
- Post lung resection condition
- Suspected tumour in the lungs
- Suspected pulmonary adhesions, scarring and bronchiectasis
- Collateral ventilation
- Incapacitated patients
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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