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Design of the randomized, controlled sequential staged treatment of emphysema with upper lobe predominance (STEP-UP) study

BACKGROUND: An innovative approach to lung volume reduction (LVR) for emphysema is introduced in the design of the Sequential Segmental Treatment of Emphysema with Upper Lobe Predominance (STEP-UP) trial where vapour ablation is administered bilaterally over the course of two sessions and is used to...

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Autores principales: Valipour, Arschang, Herth, Felix JF, Eberhardt, Ralf, Shah, Pallav L, Gupta, Avina, Barry, Robert, Henne, Erik, Bandyopadhyay, Sourish, Snell, Greg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4265492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25467378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-14-190