Jennifer Quint (Thorax’s journal club editor) talks to Pallav Shah (a respiratory physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital, UK) about his trial of airway bypass for patients with severe emphysema, recently published in the Lancet.

Dr Shah explains the procedure and how effective it was.

See also:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2811%2961050-7/abstract