artificial pneumothoraxs การใช้

• Artificial pneumothorax, for example, involved collapsing a diseased lung, which inhibited growth of tubercle bacilli.
• The treatment for tuberculosis during this time was isolation ( hence the sanatoria ) and artificial pneumothorax or lung compression.
• In 1922, Glen Lake Sanatorium doctors first adopted and performed a surgical procedure known as artificial pneumothorax, which collapsed the lung affected by pulmonary tuberculosis.