| The Centre for TB & Chest Medicine undertakes prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of pulmonary diseases in children, adolescents and adults. Comprehensive pulmonary medicine programs include specialised treatment of specific diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, sleep-disordered breathing, interstitial lung diseases, cystic fibrosis, occupational lung disease, pulmonary rehabilitation, tuberculosis, lung cancers and dedicated smoking cessation program.
Diagnostic facilities include pulmonary function testing, exercise testing, allergy testing, diffusion studies, flexible video bronchoscopic investigation, spiral & higher resolution CT imaging - guided biopsies, ventilation perfusion scans for pulmonary embolism and thoracoscopic procedures. |
