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Overview

Surgical indications are life-threatening hemoptysis or disease that is unresponsive to medical treatment.

Bronchiectasis Surgery

  • Before antibiotic therapy, the mainstay of treatment was surgery.
  • Indications for surgery
  • Life-threatening hemoptysis
  • Disease that is unresponsive to medical treatment
  • If the disease is very advanced, a lung transplant can be done. If there is sepsis, a double-lung transplant is preferred.




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