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Severe bullous emphysema and hypercapnia successfully treated by bronchoscopic lung volume reduction
Author(s) -
TSUJINO Kazuyuki,
SASADA Shinji,
KODAMA Masami,
ISHIHARA Hideki,
KAWASE Ichiro
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
respirology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.857
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1440-1843
pISSN - 1323-7799
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2009.01581.x
Subject(s) - medicine , copd , hypercapnia , respiratory failure , mechanical ventilation , respiratory system , ventilation (architecture) , lung , anesthesia , lung volumes , acute respiratory failure , reduction (mathematics) , intensive care medicine , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , engineering
Patients with severe COPD may develop hypercapnic respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation and are at risk of becoming ventilator‐dependent. We describe a patient with uncontrollable hypercapnic respiratory failure on mechanical ventilation whose respiratory condition and life were improved after bronchoscopic lung volume reduction. Further discussion of the possibility of bronchoscopic lung volume reduction in patients who require mechanical ventilation due to hypercapnic respiratory failure is warranted.