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(Chest. 1950;18:232-243.)
© 1950 American College of Chest Physicians

Artificial Pneumoperitoneum in the Treatment of Pulmonary Emphysema

A Preliminary Report

ROBERT H. FURMAN M.D.1 and JAMES J. CALLAWAY M.D.1

1 The Departments of Internal Medicine and Physiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.

1) The use of artificial pneumoperitoneum in the treatment of pulmonary emphysema may provide impressive symptomatic relief. Its use in seven patients is described.

2) Exercise tolerance and vital capacity may increase significantly following this procedure.

3) The physiological basis for the use of artificial pneumoperltoneum in pulmonary emphysema is discussed.






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