Electromagnetic 导航 支气管镜检查™ Procedures.
When you have a spot, or nodule, on your lung, it is important to learn as much as possible about it. 十大靠谱网赌平台care now has a minimally invasive option for finding out what your nodule is and what, 如果有什么区别的话, needs to be done about it. Our Electromagnetic 导航 支气管镜检查™ (ENB™) 过程s provide a minimally invasive approach to accessing difficult to reach areas of the lung aiding in the diagnosis and management of lung disease.
什么是肺结节?
A lung nodule is a spot in the lungs that can be seen with a chest X-ray or CAT scan. It is usually discovered not by symptoms a patient is experiencing, but during the course of conducting another test. More than half of all lung nodules are noncancerous (benign).1 Lung nodules have many causes, including old scars and infections, exposure to certain chemicals, 和吸烟. The only way to find out what type of nodule you have, and if any sort of treatment is necessary, is to take a tissue sample, 或活组织检查, and examine it under a microscope.
Are you a candidate for an ENB™ 过程?
An ENB™ 过程 can be used with a broad range of patients, including those who suffer from poor lung function or have an increased risk of complications with invasive 过程s. More than 50,000 patients have had the 过程, at over 600 leading medical facilities worldwide.
它是如何工作的??
使用CAT扫描, the superDimension™ navigation system with LungGPST™ technology creates a roadmap of your lungs, like a GPS (Global Positioning System) does in a car. That roadmap guides your physician through the airways of your lungs to the nodule so that he or she is able to obtain tissue to diagnose, 阶段, and prepare to treat it all in one 过程.
有什么不同??
In a traditional bronchoscopy 过程 a thin lighted tube (bronchoscope) is passed down the throat, but can only reach the central area of the lungs. 采用ENB™程序, your physician is able to navigate to nodules even in the most distant areas of the lung in a minimally invasive way. Other biopsy options use more invasive techniques with higher risk of complications.
Compare invasive 过程s vs. ENB™程序.
More invasive 过程s come with a greater risk of complications. Pneumothorax (collapsed lung) is the most common risk. Rates can be as high as 40% for 过程s such as needle biopsies.2 Pneumothorax occurs in less than 3% of ENB™ 过程 patients.3 Because it is a minimally invasive option that uses your natural airways, an ENB™ 过程 has a lower risk of complications.
期间我能期待些什么 & 在这个过程之后?
在ENB™过程中, you will be sedated and your physician will insert a bronchoscope through your mouth or nose and into your lungs. 一旦管子就位, your physician will insert specially designed tools to take a biopsy for testing. 在某些情况下, 小的标记, about the size of a grain of rice, may be placed near the lung nodule to help guide a physician delivering follow up treatment or therapy. The 过程 generally takes between 30 minutes to an hour.
After your 过程 your samples will be sent to a laboratory for testing. Talk to your physician about when you’ll review results and discuss any next steps that might be recommended. For more information please call 315-361-2035.
Navigating Your ENB™ Procedure
- Your CAT scan is converted into a 3D roadmap
- Your physician uses this roadmap to guide a bronchoscope to the spot on your lung
- Your Physician will know the location of the bronchoscope in real time with the help of tracking sensors on your chest and a location board under your back.
- Without making an incision, your physician can take a sample of the lung nodule for testing. Small markers may also be placed near the lung nodule to help guide a surgeon or other physician, if follow-up treatment is necessary.
- The samples taken during ENB™ 过程 will be evaluated and your physician will contact you with the results.
