Waiting For Exhale: Emphysema Researchers Call For New Stent Designs, More Analysis
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
New stent designs and placement techniques are needed to develop an interventional device that successfully treats severe emphysema, researchers said following publication of disappointing study results for a drug-eluting stent system intended to create airway passages in the lung.
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