Interventional Bronchoscopy

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

Part I Introduction

1 Interventional Pulmonology: Current Status

and Future Direction .................................................................. 3

John F. Beamis Jr. and Praveen M. Mathur

2 Transbronchial Lung Biopsy ...................................................... 15

Prasoon Jain, Sarah Hadique, and Atul C. Mehta

3 Transbronchial Needle Aspiration ............................................. 45

Prasoon Jain, Edward F. Haponik, A. Lukas Loschner,

and Atul C. Mehta

Part II Diagnostic Interventional Bronchoscopy

4 Radial Probe Endobronchial Ultrasound ................................. 73

Noriaki Kurimoto

5 EBUS-TBNA Bronchoscopy ....................................................... 85

Sonali Sethi and Joseph Cicenia

6 Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy .............................. 107

Thomas R. Gildea and Joseph Cicenia

7 Practical Application of Virtual Bronchoscopic

Navigation .................................................................................... 121

Fumihiro Asano

Part III Therapeutic Interventional Bronchoscopy

8 Therapeutic Bronchoscopy for Central

Airway Obstruction .................................................................... 143

Sarah Hadique, Prasoon Jain, and Atul C. Mehta

9 Airway Stents .............................................................................. 177

Pyng Lee and Atul C. Mehta

10 Bronchial Thermoplasty for Severe Asthma ............................ 189

Sumita B. Khatri and Thomas R. Gildea

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11 Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction ................................... 201

Cheng He and Cliff K. C. Choong

12 Role of Bronchoscopy in Management

of Bronchopleural Fistula ........................................................... 211

Yaser Abu El-Sameed

13 Bronchoscopy for Foreign Body Removal ................................ 227

Erik Folch and Adnan Majid

14 Role of Bronchoscopy in Hemoptysis ........................................ 245

Santhakumar Subramanian, Arvind H. Kate,

and Prashant N. Chhajed

Index ..................................................................................................... 25