Pulmonary - Overview
The UAB Pulmonary program provides comprehensive clinical treatment of pulmonary conditions, or conditions of the lung. Pulmonary patients at UAB benefit from the interdisciplinary collaboration of general practitioners and specialists from all fields on diagnoses and treatments of lung conditions from asthma to cystic fibrosis, ARDS, and lung cancer.
Conditions Treated
Some conditions that may be treated by UAB Pulmonary physicians include:
- Acute Interstitial Pneumonia
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- Alveolar Proteinosis
- Asbestosis
- Asthma
- Berylliosis
- Bronchitis
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Chronic Sinusitis
- Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
- Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis (Black Lung Disease)
- Connective Tissue Disease-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonia (DIP)
- Emphysema
- Farmer’s Lung
- Hamman-Rich Syndrome
- Hard-Metal Pneumoconiosis
- Honeycomb Lung
- Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (HSP)
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Interstitial Lung Disease
- Lymphocytic Interstitial Pneumonia (LIP)
- Lung Cancer
- Lung Disease
- Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
- Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia (NSIP)
- Pigeon Breeder’s Disease
- Pneumonia
- Pneumoconiosis
- Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis
- Pulmonary Alveolar Microlithiasis
- Pulmonary Eosinophilic Granuloma (EG), Histiocytosis X (HX), or Langerhans Cell Granulomatosis
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Pulmonary Phospholipoproteinosis
- Respiratory Bronchiolitis
- Respiratory Bronchiolitis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease (RB-ILD)
- Rheumatoid Lung
- Sarcoidosis
- Scleroderma Lung
- Shortness of Breath
- Silicosis
- Sleep-Disordered Breathing
- Smoker’s Bronchiolitis
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Lupus Lung)
- Usual Interstitial Pneumonia (UIP)
Services Provided
Some services provided by UAB Pulmonary physicians include:
- Bronchoscopy
- Cardio Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET)
- Chemotherapy
- Critical Care
- CT (Computed Tomography) Scan
- Endoscopic Examination of Airways
- Evaluation for Potential Lung Transplantation
- Inpatient Treatment
- Lung Function Measurement
- Lung Transplants
- Maintenance of Wakefulness Testing (MWT)
- Mediastinoscopy
- Multiple Sleep Latency Testing (MSLT)
- Nocturnal Polysomnography
- Nutritional Counseling
- Outpatient Care
- PET Scan
- Pulmonary Function Tests
- Radiation
- Respiratory Treatments
- Smoking Cessation Programs
- Surgery
- Surgical Lung Biopsy/Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic lung biopsy
- X-rays
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