• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Joint Statement of the German Respiratory Society and German Society of Thoracic Surgery in Cooperation with the German Radiological Society: Structural Prerequisites of Centres for Interventional Treatment of Emphysema
  • Contributor: Gesierich, Wolfgang Johannes; Darwiche, Kaid; Döllinger, Felix; Eberhardt, Ralf; Eisenmann, Stephan; Grah, Christian; Heußel, Claus Peter; Huebner, Ralf-Harto; Ley-Zaporozhan, Julia; Stanzel, Franz; Welter, Stefan; Hoffmann, Hans
  • imprint: S. Karger AG, 2021
  • Published in: Respiration
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1159/000511599
  • ISSN: 0025-7931; 1423-0356
  • Keywords: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
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  • Description: <jats:p>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” &lt;i&gt;Pneumologie&lt;/i&gt;. 2020;74:17–23. </jats:p>