Main description:

The field of interventional bronchoscopy is rapidly expanding and has emerged as a new and exciting subspecialty in pulmonary medicine. To date, the impact of interventional bronchoscopy procedures has been felt in diagnosis, staging, and management of lung cancer, the most lethal cancer worldwide. Interventional Bronchoscopy: A Clinical Guide provides a state-of-the art description of interventional bronchoscopy procedures, addressing the scientific basis, indications, techniques, results, complications, and cost issues. Chapters address the current status, the advantages of new techniques and, most importantly, when to choose new techniques over the existing techniques. Each chapter will discuss the future of these procedures. Interventional Bronchoscopy: A Clinical Guide is an essential resource for a successful interventional pulmonology service and will be useful for the bronchoscopist, anesthesiologist, radiologist, thoracic surgeon and oncologist as well as practicing pulmonologists who do not perform these procedures but have to make decisions regarding appropriate referral of their patients to advanced airway centers.

Contents:

Section 1: Introduction

Chapter 1: Interventional Pulmonology: Current Status and Future Direction

John F. Beamis, Jr.

Praveen M. Mathur

Chapter 2: Transbronchial Lung Biopsy

Prasoon Jain

Sarah Hadique

Atul C. Mehta

Chapter 3: Transbronchial Needle Aspiration

Prasoon Jain

Edward F. Haponik

A. Lukas Loschner

Atul C. Mehta

Section 2: Diagnostic Interventional Bronchoscopy

Chapter 4: Radial Probe Endobronchial Ultrasound

Noriaki Kurimoto

Chapter 5: EBUS-TBNA Bronchoscopy

Sonali Sethi

Joseph Cicenia

Chapter 6: Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy

Thomas R. Gildea

Joseph Cicenia

Chapter 7: Practical Application of Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation

Fumihiro Asano

Section 3: Therapeutic Interventional Bronchoscopy

Chapter 8: Therapeutic Bronchoscopy for Central Airway Obstruction

Sarah Hadique

Prasoon Jain

Atul C. Mehta

Chapter 9: Airway Stents

Pyng Lee

Atul C. Mehta

Chapter 10: Bronchial Thermoplasty for Severe Asthma

Sumita B. Khatri

Thomas R. Gildea

Chapter 11: Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction

Cheng He

Cliff K.C. Choong

Chapter 12: Role of Bronchoscopy in Management of Bronchopleural Fistula

Yaser Abu El-Sameed

Chapter 13: Bronchoscopy for Foreign Body Removal

Erik Folch

Adnan Majid

Chapter 14: Role of Bronchoscopy in Hemoptysis

Santha Kumar Subramanian

Arvind H. Kate

Prashant N. Chhajed