Interventional treatment of emphysema offers a wide range of surgical and endoscopic options for patients with advanced disease. Multidisciplinary collaboration of pulmonology, thoracic surgery, and imaging disciplines in patient selection, therapy, and follow-up ensures treatment quality. The present joint statement describes the required structural and quality prerequisites of treatment centres. This is a translation of the German article "Positionspapier der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Pneumologie und Beatmungsmedizin und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Thoraxchirurgie in Kooperation mit der Deutschen Röntgengesellschaft: Strukturvoraussetzungen von Zentren für die interventionelle Emphysemtherapie" Pneumologie. 2020;74:17-23.
- Gesierich, W. J.
- Darwiche, K.
- Döllinger, F.
- Eberhardt, R.
- Eisenmann, S.
- Grah, C.
- Heußel, C. P.
- Huebner, R. H.
- Ley-Zaporozhan, J.
- Stanzel, F.
- Welter, S.
- Hoffmann, H.
Keywords
- Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction
- Emphysema
- Interventional treatment
- Lung volume reduction surgery
- Structural prerequsites
