Papworth Hospital Trial New ‘Airway Bypass’ For Emphysema Sufferers, England

Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to announce on World COPD Day (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) its participation in a trial of a new treatment for severe emphysema. Papworth is one of 45 hospitals in the world and only 2 in the UK participating in a worldwide trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the airway bypass procedure to relieve breathlessness in patients with advanced widespread ‘homogeneous’ emphysema.

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Filed under: Clinical Trials on November 27th, 2008