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Contact: Susanne Hartman
susanne.hartman@uphs.upenn.edu
215-349-5964
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Caption: Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are now studying an investigational treatment for emphysema, an airway bypass procedure. Physicians create new small pathways using a special needle to make small openings. Stents, like the one pictured here, are then put in place to keep the new passageways open in the lungs.
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