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Does the lung reduction surgery provides a cure of NTM?

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Sue, Volunteer Mentor | @sueinmn | 4 days ago

@ahoura9 In some cases, where the infection is isolated to a single lobe (which is not common) a resection can cure the infection. This used to be done more frequently in the past for treatment-resistant NTM, but with new tools like additional antibiotics and better sensitivity testing it is quite rarely used.