Main description:

Interventions in Pulmonary Medicine is an important new volume that addresses all areas of interventional pulmonology, a minimally invasive endoscopic way to diagnose and treat lung disorders. This volume contains dedicated chapters that outline the many issues related to lung cancer, both in early and advanced stages, from diagnosis to personalized treatment. It also covers bronchoscopic therapeutic options to benign conditions that are highly prevalent, such as COPD and asthma. Techniques described in this volume are: laser therapy, argon plasma coagulation therapy, cryotherapy, brachytherapy, placement of intrapleural drainage systems, endoscopic treatment of emphysema, stents in the airway, and thermoplasty for bronchial asthma. Diagnostic procedures that are covered are: medical thoracoscopy, flexible and rigid bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, electromagnetical navigation, and trends in personalized treatment for lung cancer and other benign lung conditions. Chapters are written by experts and the developers of the techniques that are currently considered gold standard. Evidence-based reviews are presented for all topics and indications, and contraindications are discussed. Interventions in Pulmonary Medicine is a must have for pulmonologists, endoscopists, pulmonary oncologists, ENT physicians, thoracic surgeons, anesthesiologists, and intensive care specialists and their teams.

Feature:

Addresses all areas of interventional pulmonology

Evidence-based reviews presented for all topics

Chapters written by the developers of the current gold standard techniques and therapies

Back cover:

Interventions in Pulmonary Medicine is an important new volume that addresses all areas of interventional pulmonology, a minimally invasive endoscopic way to diagnose and treat lung disorders. This volume contains dedicated chapters that outline the many issues related to lung cancer, both in early and advanced stages, from diagnosis to personalized treatment. It also covers bronchoscopic therapeutic options to benign conditions that are highly prevalent, such as COPD and asthma. Techniques described in this volume are: laser therapy, argon plasma coagulation therapy, cryotherapy, brachytherapy, placement of intrapleural drainage systems, endoscopic treatment of emphysema, stents in the airway, and thermoplasty for bronchial asthma. Diagnostic procedures that are covered are: medical thoracoscopy, flexible and rigid bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound, electromagnetical navigation, and trends in personalized treatment for lung cancer and other benign lung conditions. Chapters are written by experts and the developers of the techniques that are currently considered gold standard. Evidence-based reviews are presented for all topics and indications, and contraindications are discussed. Interventions in Pulmonary Medicine is a must have for pulmonologists, endoscopists, pulmonary oncologists, ENT physicians, thoracic surgeons, anesthesiologists, and intensive care specialists and their teams.

Contents:

Foreword

By John Beamis

SECTION I. BASIC ENDOSCOPY              

1.    Tracheobronchial Anatomy   

By Juan Antonio Moya Amorós and Anna Ureña Lluberas

2.    FLEXIBLE BRONCHOSCOPY        

By Alicia Rodriguez

3.    RIGID BRONCHOSCOPY   

By Jose Pablo Diaz-Jimenez and Alicia Rodriguez

4.    Anesthesia for Interventional Bronchoscopic Procedures    

By Mona Sarkiss

5.    Evaluating Outcomes After Interventional Procedures         

By Teruomi Miyazawa and Hiroki Nishine

6.    Bronchoscopy Education: New Insights

By Henri G. Colt

SECTION II.  TRACHEOBRONCHIAL OBSTRUCTIONS             

7.    Reopening The Airway: Fast Methods – Laser Assisted Mechanical Resection, Electrocautery and Argon Plasma Coagulation

By Michela Bezzi

8.    Cryotherapy   

By Jose Pablo Diaz-Jimenez and Rachid Tazi Mezalek

9.    Endobronchial Brachytherapy: Concept, Indications, Technique and Outcomes    

By Aruna Turaka and Michael Unger

10.  Photodynamic Therapy for Early and Advanced Lung Cancer

By Jose Pablo Diaz-Jimenez and Rachid Tazi Mezalek

11.  Benign Tracheal And Bronchial Stenosis      

By Rosa López Lisbona and Jose Pablo Diaz-Jimenez 

12.  Endobronchial Prosthesis      

By Septimiu Dan Murgu

SECTION III. LUNG CANCER DIAGNOSIS                       

13.  Early Lung Cancer: Methods For Detection  

By Kazuhiro Yasufuku

14.  Diagnostic Of Lung Cancer: Confocal Bronchoscopy          

By Luc Thiberville and Mathieu Salaun

15.  Optical Coherence Tomography       

By Norihiko Ikeda and Stephen Lam

16.  Electromagnetic Navigation  

By Yaser Abu El-Sameed, Elif Küpeli, and Atul C. Mehta

17.  Lung Cancer Screening and the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST)      

By Fabien Maldonado and Eric Edell

18.  Tissue Acquisition In Patients With Suspected Lung Cancer: Techniques Available to the Pulmonologist 

By Vikas Pathak and M. Patricia Rivera

SECTION IV. LUNG CANCER STAGING              

19.  The New Lung Cancer TNM Clasiffication:  Review And Clinical Implications       

By Roberto Casal and Rudy Morice

20.  Mediastinoscopy And Its Variants     

By Ramon Rami-Porta and Sergi Call

21.  Endobronchial Ultrasound: Basic Principles  

By Antoni Rosell Gratacos and Noelia Cubero

22.  Endobronchial Ultrasound: Clinical Applications       

By Donald Ray Lazarus, Carlos A. Jimenez, and George A. Eapen 

SECTION V. PLEURAL CONDITIONS:                  

23.  Pleural Anatomy        

By Juan Moya Amorós and Anna Ureña Lluberas

24.  Medical Thoracoscopy          

By Francisco Rodriguez Panadero

25.  Overview of  the Spectrum of Chest Tubes with Focus on the Tunneled Pleural Catheter: Disease Specific Selection        

By Ghazwan Acash and Carla Lamb

SECTION VI. INTERVENTIONAL BRONCHOSCOPY IN ASTHMA AND EMPHYSEMA                      

26.  Endoscopic Methods For Lung Volume Reduction   

By Luis M Seijo

27.  Transbroncoscopic Emphysema Treatment with One-way Zephyr Valves 

By Amarilio Viera de Macedo-Neto and Hugo G. dev Oliveira

28.  Endoscopic Lung Volume Reduction for Treatment of Advanced Emphysema Using Injectable Hydrogels           

By Edward P Ingenito

29.  Bronchial Thermoplasty         

By Adrian Shifren, Praveen Chenna, Alexander Chen, and  Mario Castro

SECTION VII. INTERVENTIONAL BRONCHOSCOPY IN SPECIAL SITUATIONS                    

30.  Percutaneous Tracheostomy

By Anthony W. Gray, Jr

31.  Bronchoscopy Role In Interstitial Lung Disease        

By Maria Molina-Molina

32.  Endoscopic Foreign Body Removal  

By Karen L Swanson

33.  Interventional Pulmonology in the Intensive Care Unit         

By Hector A. Defranchi and Sebastian Defranchi

SECTION VIII. CONCLUSIONS

34.  Bronchoscopy and Interventional Pulmonology: Reflections on the Past, the Present, and the Future

By Udaya B. S. Prakash