Advances research on bronchoscopic lung volume reduction surgery for obstructive airway diseases

Abstract

Obstructivepulmonary disease is composed of a variety of diseases,nevertheless,they are able to induce the airway narrow and result in increase of work of breathing force.The incidence and mortality are high,which seriously influence the patients' ability to work and quality of life.There are many optimal treatment strategies of asthma,chronic bronchitis,and emphysema in different groups,such as pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods as well as surgery for high-risk patients with emphysema.In recent decades,the development objective of bronchoscopic intervention is to better control asthma symptoms and relieve symptoms of patients with emphysema who are not suitable for the lung volume reduction surgery.This demonstrates that new bronchoscopic techniques will be helpful for treatment of airway obstruction disease in future. Key words: Bronchoscopic interventions; Obstructive airway diseases; Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction