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	Emphysema Treatment: Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS)
		Generally it is a breakdown in the walls of the air sacs of the lung causing them to become abnormally enlarged.
		Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) is a procedure which removes approximately 20-35% of the poorly functioning, space occupying lung tissue from each lung.
		A special surgical stapler is used to remove the diseased lung tissue and seal the remaining lung from leaking blood and air.
	www.cts.usc.edu /lungvolumereductionsurgery.html (991 words)

	NATIONAL EMPHYSEMA TREATMENT TRIAL
		Emphysema is a chronic lung condition that is a major cause of death and disability in the United States.
		With emphysema, breathing becomes difficult as the fine architecture of the lung is destroyed, leading to large holes in the lung, obstruction of the airways, trapping of air, and difficulty exchanging oxygen because of reduced elasticity of the lungs.
		In lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS), the size of the lungs is reduced.
	www.nhlbi.nih.gov /health/prof/lung/nett/lvrsweb.htm (2848 words)

	eMedicine - Restrictive Lung Disease : Article Excerpt by: Sat Sharma, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCCP, DABSM
		Background: Restrictive lung diseases are characterized by reduced lung volume, either because of an alteration in lung parenchyma or because of a disease of the pleura, chest wall, or neuromuscular apparatus.
		The volume of FRC is determined by the balance of the inward elastic recoil of the lungs and the outward elastic recoil of the chest wall.
		In cases of intrinsic lung disease, the physiological effects of diffuse parenchymal disorders reduce all lung volumes by the excessive elastic recoil of the lungs, in comparison to the outward recoil forces of the chest wall.
	www.emedicine.com /med/byname/restrictive-lung-disease.htm (604 words)

	LVRS (Lung Volume Reduction Surgery) FAQ
		Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) is a surgical procedure where the worst areas of damaged lung tissue are removed.
		Coverage for lung volume reduction surgery is determined by the type of insurance plan one has.
		If you are interested in being evaluated for possible lung volume reduction surgery, you should call the Center for Lung Failure at 212.305.1158 to obtain a patient questionnaire.
	www.columbiasurgery.org /divisions/cardiothoracic/dd_copd_lvrsfaq.html (508 words)

	Lung Volume Reduction Surgery Fact Sheet - American Lung Association site
		Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS) is a procedure to help people with severe emphysema.
		The goal of the surgery is to reduce the size of the lungs by removing about 30% of the most diseased lung tissues so that the remaining healthier portion can perform better.
		Portions of the lung can be removed using lasers while staples and fabric are some methods used for re-sealing the lungs.
	www.lungusa.org /site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=992745 (369 words)

	Lung Volume Reduction Surgery information for severe emphysema at mayoclinic.org
		Detailed pulmonary testing is needed to determine if a patient should have lung volume reduction surgery or might benefit more from lung transplantation.
		Lung volume reduction surgery is a treatment option for patients with severe emphysema, a common type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
		While lung volume reduction surgery does not cure emphysema, it is a proven method to improve some patients' lung capacity, breathing ability and quality of life.
	www.mayoclinic.org /lung-volume-reduction-surgery (360 words)

	ALF - LEARN ABOUT LUNG HEALTH
		The lung tissue which absorbs oxygen from the air is destroyed causing spaces to be made in the lung.
		Lung volume reduction surgery is a new treatment which involves removal of parts of the lung which are badly affected by emphysema.
		Lung volume reduction surgery is a new technique which offers hope to selected severely disabled patients with emphysema.
	www.lungnet.com.au /Fact_Sheets/lung-reduction-health.html (489 words)

	Lung Volume Reduction Surgery Success Story
		With emphysema, breathing becomes difficult as the air sacs (alveoli) in the lungs are damaged, leading to large holes in the lung, obstructed airways, trapping of air, and difficulty exchanging oxygen because of reduced elasticity of the lungs.
		With lung volume reduction surgery, 25 to 30 percent of the most damaged regions of each lung are removed.
		Once at the lung, the surgery is identical -- as much as 30 percent of the lung is removed and the lung is then resealed with a stapling device.
	www.umm.edu /thoracic/lvrs_success.html (1275 words)

	Department of Surgery / Cardiothoracic Surgery: Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
		Lung volume reduction surgery gives patients’ lungs more "breathing room." During the procedure, portions of overly distended diseased lung (20 -30% of each lung) are removed to allow more space for the remaining lung to inflate.
		The success of the lung volume reduction surgery program is made possible by the skilled surgeons, pulmonologists, radiologists, anesthesiologists, respiratory therapists and nurses who all have extensive experience working with lung and lung transplant patients.
		Lung volume reduction surgery is neither investigational nor experimental.
	wuphysicians.wustl.edu /dept.asp?pageID=2&ID=38 (719 words)

	MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Pulmonary function tests
		Restrictive lung diseases may be caused by inflammation or scarring of the lung tissue (interstitial lung disease) or by abnormalities of the muscles or skeleton of the chest wall.
		Lung volume can also be measured when a person breathes nitrogen or helium gas through a tube for a specified period of time.
		The test is performed to diagnose certain types of lung disease (especially asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema), to determine the cause of shortness of breath, or to measure whether occupational exposure to contaminants affects lung function.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/003853.htm (816 words)

	LVRS
		If the diseased lung tissue is removed, it will result in more room in the chest cavity for the good lung tissue to expand and carry on gas exchange.
		In lung volume reduction surgery 20-30% of the diseased portions of the lungs are removed so that there is more space for the good lung tissue to expand and carry on gas exchange as well as more room for the diaphragm to take on its normal shape and function.
		Lung volume reduction surgery is done to improve the quality of life of patients with emphysema.
	www.spiderspun.net /LVRS.htm (890 words)

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		LUNG VOLUME AND CAPACITIES The total volume contained in the lung at the end of a maximal inspiration is subdivided into volumes and subdivided into capacities.
		Lung capacities are subdivisions of total volume that include two or more of the 4 basic lung volumes.
		The volume of air remaining in the lung at the end of a normal expiration.
	www.ursa.kcom.edu /Department/LectureNotes/Summer/LungVolumes.doc (1207 words)

	ACS :: High-Volume Hospitals Are Best at Lung Surgery
		Lung cancer patients who had a tumor removed were more likely to survive for at least five years after the surgery if they had it performed at a hospital that does a high volume of similar surgeries, especially if it was a teaching hospital.
		The study looked at the relationship between the volume of lung surgeries and outcomes of the surgery, including survival and the frequency of postoperative complications.
		Five years after surgery, 44% of patients who had their operations at hospitals with the highest volume were alive, compared to 33% of patients who had their operations at hospitals with the lowest volume.
	www.cancer.org /docroot/NWS/content/update/NWS_2_1xU_High_Volume_Hospitals_Are_Best_at_Lung_Surgery.asp?sitearea=NWS&viewmode=print& (708 words)

	Medical Policy SURG.00022 \| Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
		Lung volume reduction surgery is not a cure for emphysema. It is intended to alleviate some of the symptoms of the condition, including shortness of breath. Patients who undergo LVRS continue to have severe emphysema, and their disease will continue to progress over time.
		Ejection fraction: the percent of total volume of blood in the left ventricle of the heart that is ejected when the heart contracts; this is used as a measure of heart health and function.
		Lung volume reduction for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
	www.healthlink.com /provider/medpolicy/policies/SURG/lung_volume.html (1872 words)

	Lung function fundamentals
		The lungs move in response to external forces - during normal inspiration these forces are the movement of the diaphragm, and movement of the chest wall by the intercostal muscles.
		Above we said that the behaviour of the lung is analogous to that of a spring - change in pressure is accompanied by a proportional change in volume.
		The lung appears to have a "memory" of its recent history, in that low-volume ventilation for a period of time tends to cause a reduction in compliance.
	www.anaesthetist.com /icu/organs/lung/lungfx.htm (6808 words)

	Lung Volume Reduction Surgery Eases Emphysema Symptoms
		Since lung volume reduction surgery was introduced about 20 years ago, it has become a popular treatment alternative for people with the most severe forms of emphysema.
		Lung volume reduction surgery involves removal the most diseased parts of the lung to give the lungs more room to expand and allow normal breathing.
		In the study, researchers followed the first 250 patients to receive lung volume reduction surgery between January 1993 and June 2000 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis for an average of almost five years.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/62/71753 (554 words)

	Lung Volume Reduction Revisited
		Lung volume reduction surgery combined with medical treatment in a carefully selected group of patients yields significant gains in lung function, exercise tolerance, and quality of life measures compared with medical treatment alone.
		The Canadian Lung Volume Reduction (CLVR) surgery study and the Overholt–Blue Cross Emphysema Surgery Trial (OBEST) are two independent, multicenter, randomized clinical trials that compared LVRS plus optimal medical therapy with medical treatment alone.
		LVRS involved removal of 20% to 30% of total lung volume, with extubation attempted in the operating room as soon as the patient regained consciousness.
	www.pulmonaryreviews.com /jul05/lungvolreducsurg.html (1148 words)

	Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
		Lung volume reduction surgery is a surgical treatment for patients with severe emphysema involving the excision of peripheral emphysematous lung tissue.
		Lung volume reduction surgery is palliative not curative.
		Overall, lung volume reduction surgery increases the chance of improved exercise capacity but does not confer a survival advantage over medical therapy; the functional benefits of lung volume reduction surgery came at the price of increased short-term mortality and morbidity.
	www.regence.com /trgmedpol/surgery/sur31.html (1221 words)

	Penn Lung Center: Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS)
		Lung volume reduction surgery is a procedure for people with advanced emphysema.
		At Penn, lung volume reduction surgery may be performed as part of the National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT), a research study for patients with severe emphysema.
		To be referred for lung volume reduction surgery, you may call (or ask your physician to call) the Emphysema Program.
	pennhealth.com /lung/services/lvrs.html (718 words)

	Benefit From Lung Volume Reduction Surgery? - Lungs: pulmonary and respiratory health and medical information produced ...
		Expansion of the remaining lung would be expected to occur to make up (compensate) for the surgical loss of lung volume or just to fill the void.
		This expansion of lung tissue is the main principle and the rationale behind Lung Volume Reduction Surgery.
		Numerous studies since the 1950s have suggested that surgical resection of the diseased portion of the lungs (lung volume reduction surgery) may benefit patients with emphysema.
	www.medicinenet.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=19550 (703 words)

	ImpulseAdventure - Freediving - Lung Squeeze
		Freediver B doesn't pack, descends at an average speed of 0.75m/s, lung volume is 6 Litres, residual volume is 1.5 Litres.
		To take it one step further, the ultimate application of this method would be to have a lung volume like Hubert Maier's 14L which would allow him to reach residual volume of 1.5 L at 9.3 atm or 83m.
		The most drastic change in lung volume is in the first 20m of the descent when you go from a full lung volume to one third that volume.
	www.impulseadventure.com /freedive/lung-squeeze.html (2848 words)

	Postgraduate Medicine: Symposium: Surgery for severe COPD
		Surgical techniques have been based on the premise that patients with severe emphysema have lungs that are relatively larger than the size of their chest cavity and that this imbalance is responsible for the failure of medical therapy and such patients' inexorable decline.
		Elastic recoil of the lung: Sciurba and colleagues (3) recently examined static elastic recoil of the lung in 20 patients with diffuse emphysema before and after LVRS (17 unilateral and 3 bilateral procedures).
		Elastic recoil was obtained by measuring the relationship between lung pressure and lung volume with the static expiratory esophageal balloon technique.
	www.postgradmed.com /issues/1998/04_98/obrien.htm (3816 words)

	Barnes-Jewish Hospital - Lung Volume Reduction
		The lung volume reduction team, including Washington University surgeons and pulmonologists, as well as highly qualified nursing support and physician trainees, has performed the largest number of lung volume reduction surgeries, using the techniques developed here.
		Lung volume reduction surgery is an innovative emphysema treatment that removes 20 to 30 percent of the lung tissue most damaged by emphysema.
		It also is appropriate patients who are not eligible for lung transplantation The goal is to set the clock back five years.
	www.barnesjewish.org /groups/default.asp?NavID=341 (243 words)

	Dynamic Lung Volume Tracker and Controller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Because scanning of the lung requires several breathhold maneuvers to complete an apex-to-base due to long image acquisition times and cannot be performed in one continuous breathhold, volumetric images are highly dependent upon patient cooperation and is subject to errors caused by patient repeatability and fatigue due to hyperinflation efforts.
		Prior to scanning, the desired lung inflation level at which to perform scanning is input to the software and when the desired level is reached, the expiratory path is occluded and imaging begins.
		Scanning a single lung slice at a fixed level of lung inflation before and after taking several intervening breaths permits testing that the equipment properly and repeatably returns the patient to a desired lung inflation level.
	dpi.radiology.uiowa.edu /nlm/volcon/volctrl.html (1104 words)

	Research Page: Lung volume reduction surgery in an emphysema model
		The exact effects of the volume reduction surgery on lung function are not known, nor is it known how to determine the optimal amount of lung tissue to remove during surgery.
		In addition, some patients with severe emphysema and lung cancer cannot be operated on to cure their cancers because their lung function is too poor.
		The results of these studies should be directly beneficial to lung volume reduction in humans and this model should be widely applicable for future studies in this rapidly expanding field.
	www.trdrp.org /research/PageGrant.asp?grant_id=426 (1180 words)

	COPD Center - American Lung Association site
		Click here to email your question or call 1-800-548-8252 to speak with a health care professional.
		The mission of the American Lung Association is to prevent lung disease and promote lung health.
		Click here to contact a Local Lung Association in your area or call 1-800-LUNGUSA.
	www.lungusa.org /site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=23050 (217 words)

	One-Way Valves for Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction
		Bronchoscopic alternatives to lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) have been recently proposed; the airway bypass [1-3] and bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) are certainly one step beyond current LVRS practice.
		The one–way valve allows air to be vented from the isolated lung segment during normal expiration and prevents air from refilling the lung during expiration.
		This valve has also been designed to allow air to be vented from the isolated lung segment while preventing air from refilling the isolated lung area during inspiration: it vents during expiration and closes when flow is reversed during inhalation.
	www.ctsnet.org /sections/thoracic/newtechnology/article-3.html (2046 words)

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