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Arschang Valipour, ERS 2019 – Bronchial Rheoplasty For Treatment of Chronic Bronchitis

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Published Online: Oct 15th 2019

Arschang Valipour, Vienna, Austria, met with us at ERS 2019 in Madrid to discuss the 6-month results from a prospective multi-center study of bronchial rheoplasty for the treatment of chronic bronchitis.

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1. What are the most important unmet needs in the treatment of patients with chronic bronchitis? (0:05)
2. Could you tell us a little about the design of the RheOx™ device and its mechanism of action? (0:45)
3. What was the design of the recent prospective study investigating this technique? (1:39)
4. What were the major efficacy and safety findings of this study? (2:54)
5. What will be the next steps in the clinical investigation of the RheOx™ device? (3:54)

Speaker disclosures: Arschang Valipour has nothing to disclose in relation to this interview.

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Filmed at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress 2019, Madrid, Spain.

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