The 1^st Pulmonology Clinic provides high-quality services that cover the entire spectrum of contemporary Clinical and Interventional Pulmonology, as well as Sleep Medicine.

The team of experienced pulmonologists staffing it have multiannual training and experience in the management of obstructive and interstitial lung diseases, lung neoplasms, sleep-disordered breathing, as well as difficult cases of respiratory failure and the need for non-invasive mechanical ventilation.

Cutting-edge technology combined with the art of medicine and compassion constitute a priority and daily practice for the doctors of the 1^st Pulmonology Clinic. In the exceptionally equipped and well-staffed endoscopic laboratory, diagnostic and therapeutic videobronchoscopies, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), as well as bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) are performed for the diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases or particular infections.

The accurate diagnosis and individualized treatment of sleep-related breathing disorders constitutes a large portion of daily clinical practice in the 1^st Pulmonology Clinic. In addition, the pulmonary function laboratory, the monitoring of chronic obstructive diseases (such as severe asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis), the lung health checkup, the smoking cessation department and the presymptomatic screening for smokers, for the early diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer, are both a priority and a daily challenge for the Clinic’s pulmonologists.