# Thorax Enlarging Surgery: a Novel Surgical Approach to Emphysema

> **NCT00650559** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **KU Leuven** · enrollment: 4 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- COPD
- Emphysema

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Chest wall enlargement

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00650559
- **Lead sponsor:** KU Leuven
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2004-06
- **Primary completion:** 2006-12
- **Final completion:** 2006-12
- **Target enrollment:** 4 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** post-surgical complications in the last 2 patients
- **Last updated:** 2008-04-01


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00650559

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00650559, "Thorax Enlarging Surgery: a Novel Surgical Approach to Emphysema". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-16 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00650559. Licensed CC0.

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