CORCORAN, DEAN;CRAN, BRIAN;BARRY, ROBERT L.;LEE, SHELDON K.
发明人:
BARRY, ROBERT L.,CRAN, BRIAN,CORCORAN, DEAN,LEE, SHELDON K.
申请号：
CA2587909
公开号：
CA2587909C
申请日:
2005.11.16
申请国别(地区):
CA
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要：
This invention relates to the treatment of a patient's lung, for example, alung exhibiting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and in particularto methods and devices for affecting lung volume reduction, preferably forachieving acute or immediate lung volume reduction following treatment. Thelung volume reduction is effected by delivering a condensable vapor at atemperature above body temperature to the desired regions of the patient'slung to damage tissue therein. Blood flow and air flow to the damaged tissueregion is essentially terminated, rendering the target region non-functional.Alternative energy sources may be used to effect the thermal damage to thelung tissue.
