Pulmonary medicine is a subspecialty of internal medicine that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the respiratory tract. A pulmonologist has expertise in the evaluation of patients with breathlessness, cough, wheezing, and chest tightness, as well as abnormalities of the chest x-ray, chest CT scan and other chest imaging studies. Disorders frequently diagnosed and managed by a pulmonologist include:

• Asthma  
• Emphysema 
• Chronic Bronchitis 
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea 
• Sarcoidosis 
• Occupational and Other Lung Diseases  
• Pneumonia 
• Lung Cancer and Tumors 
• Pulmonary Hypertension  
• Respiratory Failure 
• Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
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Common Pulmonary Procedures
Please select from the following list for additional information about common pulmonary:

• Bronchoscopy 
• Interventional Pulmonology 
• Thoracentesis 
• Thoracic Needle Biopsy