Pulmonx Reaches Multiple Milestones In Lung-Valve, Diagnostics Development

Encouraging results from the IMPACT study of Pulmonx's Zephyr endobronchial valve in patients with homogenous emphysema – a population with almost no other options – is the latest in string of good news for the Silicon Valley company, which wants to create a new paradigm of personalized device therapy for pulmonary disease.

Implanted valves
Pulmonx' Zephyr endobronchial valves implanted in the lungs of a patient with severe emphysema • Source: Pulmonx Corp.

The IMPACT trial shows Pulmonx Corp.'s Zephyr endobronchial valves produces clinically meaningful benefits in improved lung function, exercise tolerance and quality-of-life for patients with homogenous emphysema without collateral ventilation who were selected for the therapy with Pulmonx' Chartis diagnostic tool.

Results of the 93-patient IMPACT trial, led by Arschang Valipour of the Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute in Vienna, are published online in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

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