History of present illness A 73-year-old Caucasian man was referred to the respiratory unit complaining of worsening exertional dyspnea and productive cough, lasting for about 4 months. Following an acute…
History of present illness A 65-year-old man has been complaining of exertional dyspnea and dry cough for 2 years. During this period, he was treated with oral steroids, inhaled bronchodilators,…
History of present illness A 58-year-old man presented to the outpatient clinic complaining of cough and shortness of breath during exercise. These symptoms had begun about 1 year earlier and…
Introduction Thoracoscopy, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), medical thoracoscopy (MT), and pleuroscopy are minimally invasive procedures that provide access to the pleural space. They differ only in the approach to anesthesia….
Introduction Since its discovery in 1876, bronchoscopy has served a fundamental role in the diagnosis and management of pulmonary disease. Over the past few decades, the therapeutic capabilities of bronchoscopy…
Chest Tubes Definition Tube thoracostomy has been described since antiquity, with the earliest accounts of using a tube for drainage of empyema from the pleural cavity from Hippocrates. Original chest…
Introduction Tracheostomy is derived from the Latin words “trachea arteria” and “ostium,” which means “creating an opening in the trachea.” The earliest documentation of tracheostomy is a description of the…
Introduction With ongoing advances in medical diagnostics and therapeutics, interventional pulmonology (IP) is playing an ever more impactful role in health care. This is becoming more evident with the increasing…
Introduction Central airway obstruction (CAO) is the narrowing of central airways (trachea, mainstem bronchi, and bronchus intermedius) due to benign and malignant diseases. In this chapter we focus on CAO…
Introduction The goal of this chapter is to provide an effective, systematic, multimodality bronchoscopic approach to the problem of malignant airway obstruction that facilitates proper integration of all of the…
