In its final and pre-final stages, the disease manifests itself in unbearable shortness of breath and leads to oxygen therapy.
COPD patients can not perform basic functions such as washing, dressing or going out. The medication they receive, just maintains the difficult daily life they experience.
Revolutionary endoscopic method
Invasive Pulmonology is a modern specialty of Pulmonology that combines diagnostic and therapeutic interventions with endoscopic techniques. Today, using a revolutionary endoscopic technique, we can provide breathing solution to patients suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Specifically, through a bronchoscope, special valves or plates are placed in the affected lung, in order to exclude it from the air circulation and thus to give space to the healthy lung to “breathe”.
It is a bloodless and largely redemptive method, which, however, requires absolute specialization in order to be successful and to avoid, as far as possible, possible complications.
The patient, after treatment, gets up from the chair, walks and, in many cases, moves away from the oxygen.
THE HYGEIA invasive pulmonology team applied this method in Greece and continues to apply it along with other also innovative methods, following the example of advanced European countries.
The doctors involved in the application of these innovative methods in our country, are in constant contact and open communication with reference centers abroad, so that the transfer of this valuable know-how is done with absolute safety for patients.
With these methods integrated in our therapeutic quiver, the aim is now to inform patients by their doctors about the beneficial results of their application, which are really a breath-taking solution.
Writes:
Michalis Doris
Invasive Pulmonologist
Head of Bronchoscopic Laboratory HYGEIA
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