This Device Could Prevent Lung Biopsy’s Most Common — and Costly — Complication

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3D computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest of a 60 year old male patient with a pneumothorax, or collapsed lung. The right lung (seen on the left) has collapsed due to a build-up of air between the lung and chest wall. Pneumothorax can be due to trauma or lung rupture. It causes shortness of breath and pain on breathing. It is treated by inserting a tube to drain the air over a period of days, allowing the lung to re-inflate

Selio Medical developed an FDA-cleared hydrogel device that seals CT-guided lung biopsy punctures before they can cause pneumothorax — a collapsed lung complication that affects up to a third of the 800,000+ such biopsies performed annually in the U.S.

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