lung-dialysis - another interesting development

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Another potential silver bullet ........

Lung-dialysis for COPD patients where they recon it could reduce mortality rates from 35% to 7%.

We'll see ............

ansa.it/english/news/scienc...

[jimmyw123]

very, very interesting o/f/l its amazing what can be done nowadays,,,,jimmy

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the ;ink took me to an Italian not available page?

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Can't see how it would would work.

[jenss in reply to Hidden]

a little bit more info but still not crystal clear news.xinhuanet.com/english/...

and a Canadian dialysis machine successful and now in human clinical trial of 99 patients, to be completed Dec 2018 fbresearch.org/lung-dialysis/

medicalxpress.com/news/2014...

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Thanks Jenss ....

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Thanks for the extra information. Very interesting . I think its not a treatment for the majority of us Copd 'ers.

But it's great to see new things coming along.

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In my case I have to think of the generations that will follow me. I am Alpha-1, a genetic protein deficiency that causes progressive lung damage with chronic COPD symptoms. With the right (?) combination of parental genes the condition will pass on from generation to generation .... I may well have passed it on to my children, but who knows .... tests are readily available but neither will have the test for fear of spending the rest of their lives worrying they may end up like me.

Any new developments, albeit some not available for the next 50 years, is for me, excellent news.