Respiratory medicine is a branch of specialisation that deals with diseases of the respiratory system such as asthma, pulmonary hypertension, sleep apnea and even infections and tumors.
Gleneagles Hospitals boasts a department dedicated to pulmonary and respiratory mediation and is fully equipped to help our patients recover for various types of breathing problems from acute to chronic.
Procedures
- Tube thoracostomy for pleural effusion and pneumothorax
- Needle thoracentesis for pleural effusion
- Ultrasound guided needle thoracentesis/tube thoracostomy
- Pleural biopsy
- Bronchoscopy: the department is equipped with a broncho videoscope for diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopies (foreign body removal)
- Testing for allergies
Types of Conditions Treated
- Bronchial asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (chronic bronchitis/emphysema)
- Pneumonias (infections)
- Interstitial lung disease
- Occupation related respiratory diseases
- Sleep apnoea syndrome
- Diagnosis and staging of lung cancer
- Pulmonary embolism
- Chronic cough
- Bronchiectasis
- Haemoptysis (coughing blood)
Diagnostic Tools Used
- Chest radiograph
- CT scan of chest (64 slice CT scanner)
- Pulmonary function test - spirometry
- Polysomnography for diagnosis of sleep related breathing disorders
- Chest ultrasound
