This book provides an unbiased and evidence-based guide to the potential role of interventional pulmonology as an alternative to thoracic surgery. Interventional pulmonology is a new and quickly growing sub-specialty in pulmonary medicine and increasingly more pulmonologists are turning to interventional therapies over the more costly and invasive surgical options. The text thoroughly presents detailed coverage of and diagnostic methods for many diseases and conditions that pulmonologists encounter daily, including: diffuse lung infiltrates, solitary lung nodule, undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion, pneumothorax, hemoptysis, and airway foreign body. Experts then detail treatment options, from both a surgical and interventional perspective, with guidance on: when each procedure is most appropriate, what can be performed by a pulmonologist (with guidelines on how those procedures are done) versus what needs to be referred to a thoracic surgeon or an intervention pulmonologist, and thebenefits and disadvantages involved with each option. This is an ideal guide for pulmonologists, trainees, and students to better understand the full scope of possible treatment options for their patients and to make the best informed decision about patient care.

J. Francis Turner's profile page

Prasoon Jain's profile page

Kazuhiro Yasufuku's profile page

Atul C. Mehta's profile page

Dr. J. Francis Turner, Jr. serves as the Director of Interventional Pulmonology & Pulmonary Rehabilitation for the Wyoming Hospital Medical Group and is past Vice-Chair of Medicine and Professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine. He serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the National Supercomputing Institute-UNLV.

Dr. Turner has served as Director of Interventional Pulmonology at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, the University of Nevada School of Medicine, VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System, the Nevada Cancer Institute, and as an editor and board member of theJournal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology and American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology.

Prasoon Jain, MD is Clinical Professor, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care at West Virginia University. Drs Mehta and Jain are co-editors of the successful Interventional Bronchoscopy, and the recently released Diseases of the Central Airways in the Respiratory Medicine series.

Kazuhiro Yasufuku, MD, PhDis Head of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network. He is also Professor and Chair of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at University of Toronto.

Atul C. Mehta, MD is Professor of Medicine and Buoncore Family Endowed Chair in Lung Transplantation at Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic.