The Department of Pulmonary Medicine undertakes the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of pulmonary diseases in children, adolescents, and adults. Comprehensive pulmonary medicine programmes include specialized treatment of specific diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, sleep-disordered breathing, interstitial lung diseases, cystic fibrosis, occupational lung diseases, pulmonary rehabilitation, tuberculosis, lung cancers and a dedicated smoking cessation programme. Diagnostic facilities include pulmonary function testing, exercise testing, allergy testing, diffusion studies, flexible video bronchoscopic investigation, BAL and endobronchial stenting, spiral and higher resolution CT imaging guided biopsies, ventilation perfusion scans for pulmonary embolism and thoracoscopic procedures. The department renders facilities for investigation and management of all sorts of infective and non-infective pulmonary diseases.

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