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Pulmonary Services
The following are pulmonary services at UT Medical Center
Evaluation and management of a variety of lung related illnesses, such as
- Difficulty Breathing
- COPD / Emphysema
- Asthma
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Lung Cancer
- Sleep Disorders
- Acute/Chronic Pneumonia
- Lung Nodules/Other X-Ray Abnormality
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Bronchiectasis/Cystic Fibrosis
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Sarcoidosis
- Chronic respiratory failure
Testing services include:
- Pulmonary Function Tests (PFT) and Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) analysis
- Bronchoscopy with lung biopsy
- Thoracentesis and pleural biopsy
- Exercise testing
Interventional Pulmonology services include:
- Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) guided biopsies
- Therapeutic bronchoscopy
- Tumor destruction using thermal ablation, cautery, or cryotherapy
- Tracheobronchial dilation and stenting
- Removal of aspirated foreign bodies - Placement of a pleural catheter for home drainage
- Transtracheal oxygen catheter placement
- Bronchial thermoplasty
Other Services:
- Smoking cessation counseling
- Provide medical staff to the UT Chest Cancer Clinic
- Asthma school in our office
- Community education
- Clinical research
- All UPCC physicians serve as faculty for the UT Graduate School of Medicine and are active teachers for the medical residents and pulmonary fellows.
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