Li, Chang
Li, Ling
Deng, Mingming
Zheng, Ziwen
Zhang, Qin
Huang, Ke
Porcel, José M.
Fu, Liping
Herth, Felix J.
Hou, Gang https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3438-1764
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Documents that mention this clinical trial
The ventilation–perfusion differential index assists target lobe selection and improves V/Q redistribution for endobronchial valve lung volume reduction: a prospective study
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40001-026-05224-9
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 82470039, 82300053, 82400041, 82400042, and 82570063)
Noncommunicable Chronic Diseases-National Science and Technology Major Project (2024ZD0528900 to GH, 2024ZD0528902 to GH)
CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (No. 2022-I2M-1-025)
the Key Research and Development Program of Heilongjiang (No. 2024ZX12C20)
Article History
Received: 29 April 2026
Accepted: 14 September 2026
First Online: 26 September 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital (Approval No. 2022-KY-195). All procedures were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. Informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to their inclusion in the study.
Consent for publication: Consent for publication was obtained from all participants included in this study, including permission to publish their anonymized medical images.
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.