The 1st
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 1st 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 1st 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.