World-first lung repair shows promise.

[2greys]

Polymer glue put to work.

A decade ago, Ing became the first physician in Australia to insert endobronchial valves in COPD and emphysema patients. Ing first performed this operation at MUH in 2010, and since then it’s become the leading centre in NSW for this procedure.

But Ing was only able to treat about half the COPD patients he saw this way. For those with fissures or holes between good and bad parts of their lung, these valves would have no effect.

“There has to be no communication at all between the good and bad parts of the lung for this procedure to work,” Ing says. “You have to totally close off and collapse the bad part.”

Giles was one of these inoperable patients. So the team tried out a novel technique, using an aerosol polymer glue to repair the holes in the fissures and seal sections of his lung completely. This was the first time globally that physicians had ever performed this operation.

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(Link kindly provided by Redsox)

[SquirrelsHolt]

Morning 2greys and your article was so interesting, as i suppose it would be for anyone with very severe COPD and in time it does look as though the Australian's with Prof Ing, may have developed something that could have a very positive outcome.

Thanks for that! A good start to my day. 🐿🌈

[CDPO16]

That would have made a huge difference to my lung function. I hope this new development goes on to help many more in the future

[RoadRunner44]

Fantastic! Another piece of good news to cheer us up.

😀

[watergazer]

Amazing what can be done !

[Izb1]

What a fantastic article, it gives hope to those who are in this situation.

And where is Redsox havent seen any posts lately?

[2greys in reply to Izb1]

He has stood back, but still a member, so far.

[Izb1 in reply to 2greys]

Thats good that he hasnt left us, he used to post on a regular basis x