COPD and Emphysema: Confused by pulmonary function test and more

Great advice

I read that yesterday it's FDA approved I wonder does most insurance cover that and there is a risk they say collapsed lung do you know of anyone who had it done.

Temple Lung Center in Philadelphia Pennsylvania

It is FDA approved but it's also clinical trail does have risk factor collapsed lung

Welcome @debora29- Yes within the past year and it is exciting but it isn't a promise for everyone. Trials have shown mixed reviews with successes. I think that it depends on what caused your emphysema and your prognosis. I have to tell you that when I googled it the information that I think you want was very difficult to pin point because it is so new. So I encourage you to google it so you can pinpoint what you want to know. The valves actually look like a little high end glass lamp shade.
The following is what I picked out for you to review but it is by no means close to what we might all want to know. I'm not suppose to share any adds because this site is neutral to products but one of these sites might be an ad only because it was one of few sites that I found had good information.
There have been successes but there have been failures too. Please use caution when reaching out for something that might be new like this, unless of course your doctor recommends it. And as you point out is does have it's side effects. Let me know if this is the way you want to go. Have you discussed this with your doctor?

https://mylungsmylife.com/ https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/44/Suppl_58/P3713

Saw some promising information in a Mayo Clinic news article that some of you might be interested in...

Mayo Clinic Offers New Hope to Patients With COPD - April 18, 2019
-- https://intheloop.mayoclinic.org/2019/04/18/mayo-clinic-offers-new-hope-to-patients-with-copd/

This was meant to be a general post not a specific reply but I'm not smart enough to figure out how to post.
I was speaking to the regenerative medicine researcher. I was told funding has been approved for a new stem-cell copd trial. This is a small, 15 person, trial. The underlying reason is to ensure donor lung, stem-cells are safe (donor as opposed our own). The point is, we could use our own without much risk of side effects but it isn't cost effective to remove ours and grow the millions needed from those relatively few. It is cost effective to use a pre-existing donor bank containing billions of lung stem-cells (they know how to grow them). If this test proves donor cells are safe, they can proceed to larger test populations, focusing on the efficacy of the therapy on copd. So far, the effects of lung stem-cells while they haven't resulted in side-effects, they haven't been very effective in reversing copd. I understand in the previous tests only 5-10% of subjects reported a significant improvement of symptoms.
Any comments, I'd love to hear them. I want this to work, so badly.

btw I meant the researcher at Mayo .

Hello everyone! I wanted to see how everyone was doing. I am tagging @oldkarl @waterboy @cognac @joangma and @penlee in hopes of getting an update from you all. How is your treatment going? How are you feeling? Have any symptoms worsened or lessened?

thanks for asking I had a PET scan and I have lung cancer. the cancer is stage 1 and is approx. the size of my fingernail. there will be only 5 treatments with a new radiation that kills very few good cells. hoping 4 the best.A PET SCAN IS THE ONLY WAY TO CHECK FOR CANCER AND SEE IT LIGHT UP BECOUSE OF THE ATOMIC SUGAR. WONDERFULL INVENTION. GET ONE TODAY NOT TOMARROW.