Interventional Pulmonology

Edited by Felix J.F. Herth, Pallav L. Shah and Daniela Gompelmann
The role of bronchoscopy in the evaluation and treatment of respiratory disease has evolved dramatically over the last decade. Originally a tool for examining and sampling the central endobronchial tree, it has broadened considerably to include techniques that now enable the treatment of an increasing number of conditions. In this ERS Monograph, the Guest Editors make this broad area easy to navigate by separating the book into three sections: technical aspects, diagnostic procedures, and therapeutic interventions. Within these sections, leading authors in the field provide chapters on: flexible and rigid bronchoscopy, bronchoscopy in intensive care, laryngoscopy, biopsy techniques, EBUS and EUS, cryobiopsy, early cancer therapies, airway stents and much more.

Contents list 

Technical Aspects
1. Flexible bronchoscopy
2. Rigid bronchoscopy
3. Bronchoscopy in intensive care
4. Imaging 
5. Training 

Diagnostic Procedures
6. Laryngoscopy
7. Early cancer detection
8. Biopsy techniques
9. Minimally invasive endosonographic techniques: combined EBUS and EUS
10. Bronchoscopic cryotherapy and cryobiopsy
11. Navigational bronchoscopy in solitary pulmonary nodules
12. Thoracoscopy

Therapeutic Interventions
13. Haemoptysis
14. Early cancer therapies
15. Central airway obstruction
16. Airway stents
17. Foreign bodies
18. Airway fistulas
19. Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction
20. Bronchial thermoplasty
21. Advanced techniques in local anaesthetic thoracoscopy
22. Upcoming techniques

Print ISBN: 978-1-84984-001-9
eISBN: 978-1-84984-092-7