Mohammed Munavvar of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals in Preston, UK, discusses endobronchial therapies for emphysema treatment. He reviews reversible and irreversible techniques, and he emphasizes the importance of multidisciplinary discussion prior to recommending an endobronchial or surgical treatment for a patient.
This presentation was originally given during the SCTS Ionescu University program at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland. This content is published with the permission of SCTS. Please click here for more information on SCTS educational programs.
CITATION
Manavvar M. Endobronchial Therapies Will Make Surgery Obsolete. August 2018. doi:10.25373/ctsnet.6855092.

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Endobronchial therapies are definitely useful, but will never ever replace surgery.