60
Participants
Start Date
December 31, 2002
Study Completion Date
October 31, 2005
awake nonresectional LVRS
Thoracoscopic nonresectional lung volume reduction surgery carried out in awake patients under sole epidural anesthesia through plication of most emphysematous target areas of the lung
Nonawake resectional LVRS
Thoracoscopic lung volume reduction surgery carried out under general anesthesia and one-lung ventilation through nonanatomic resection of the most emphysematous target areas of the lung
Policlinico Tor Vergata University, Rome
University of Rome Tor Vergata
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