Connecticut COPD patients now have access to a new life-changing treatment in Hartford. The first patient at Saint Francis Hospital to get the procedure since.
Paul Petruccione was doing yard work the day after he came home from Saint Francis Hospital, having undergone a procedure to treat his emphysema and COPD. That’s after he got up at 4:30 a.m. and cleaned his refrigerator and stove. His doctor wasn’t thrilled about that, but it was a good sign that Petruccione had gotten through the somewhat risky procedure in good shape. Petruccione was first .
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Dr. Anil Magge of St. Francis Hospital uses and Ion robotic bronchoscope to reach into the farthest parts of the lung to biopsy and mark nodules suspected of being cancerous.