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Headline:

Emphysema surgery deemed dangerous for very sick patients

Newspaper Article Synopsis:

A federal study that is trying to determine if surgery for advanced emphysema is clinically sound has found that 16% of participants died within one month of the procedure. The patients that died had undergone lung volume reduction surgery and were all extremely ill. Others with similar conditons who were slated for surgery will now not undergo the treatment.

Newspaper Article Source:

Associated Press. Emphysema surgery deemed dangerous for very sick patients. Star Tribune, 2001 August 15: A11(col. 1).

Journal Article Citation:

National Emphysema Treatment Trial Research Group. Patients at high-risk of death after lung-volume-reduction surgery. Due to its important clinical implications this article is being published early. It will appear in the October 11 2001 issue.. New England Journal of Medicine

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