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Interstitial Lung Disease Program Referral Information
Patients with interstitial lung disease require care from a multidisciplinary team of experienced physicians, an active research program, and a commitment to patient education. The Temple Lung Center’s Interstitial Lung Disease Program is a national leader in all three areas, offering a physician leadership team with decades of experience at Temple, a research program that publishes often and is supported by the NIH and private industry, and a wide range of educational programs for patients, caregivers and physicians.
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Tracheobronchial Malacia Referral Information
The Tracheobronchomalacia (TBM) Program at the Temple Lung Center offers patients with this rare and often under-recognized condition, a multidisciplinary medical team led by specialty-trained thoracic surgeon Charles Bakhos, MD, FACS.
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Management of Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Presented by Fox Chase Cancer Center, the Temple Lung Center, and the Temple Health Office for Continuing Medical Education, this conference is designed as a forum for discussion of advances in technology and treatment of early stage non-small cell lung cancer. Multidisciplinary perspectives, including medical, surgical and radiation oncology, pulmonology and radiology will be presented.
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The Potential for Bronchoscopic Interventions in Chronic Bronchitis
Chronic bronchitis is a clinical diagnosis characterized by chronic cough and phlegm production. It is typically associated with cigarette smoking and puts individuals at risk for respiratory exacerbations, reduces health related quality of life, and mortality. Current treatment options are limited and are largely ineffective. This program will focus on the new bronchoscopic interventions that are under development for the treatment of chronic bronchitis.
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Alpha-One Antitrypsin Deficiency and Ascending Aortic Distention
Friederich Kueppers, MD discusses a study indicating a link between Alpha-One Antitrypsin Deficiency and Aortic Aneurysm.
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Transgender Health & Gender Affirming Surgery
Laura Douglass, MD (she/her), Fox Chase-Temple Urologic Institute Provider, discusses transgender health and gender affirming surgery. She discusses the importance of transgender and nonbinary health and how to provide gender affirming care. She also provides an overview of Gender Affirming Surgery.
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Pulmonary Hypertension: An update on diagnosis, treatment and risk assessment
Pulmonary hypertension encompasses a broad scope of disease states. This program will focus on pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) which begins as a vasculopathy within the small pulmonary arteries.
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CTEPH Diagnosis and Management in 2022: Grand Rounds with Dr. Anjali Vaidya
Anjali Vaidya, MD, FACC, FASE, FACP, Co-Director of Pulmonary Hypertension, Right Heart Failure, and CTEPH Program at Temple Health shares advanced diagnosis and managment for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
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Clofazimine in the Treatment of Pulmonary Mycobacterium Avium Complex (MAC) Disease
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), particularly Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), has become increasingly more prevalent in patients causing pulmonary dysfunction.
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Optimal Pharmaceuticals to Support Blood Pressure Management
Paul H. Pronovost, MD, FACP, FASN; Interim Chief, Section of Nephrology, Hypertension and Kidney Transplantation at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University discusses challenges in the medical management of hypertension.
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Hard-to-control Hypertension and When to Consider a Referral to Advanced Program for Complex Hypertension
Ajaykumar D. Rao, MD, MMSc, FACP, discusses the complexity of patients with resistant hypertension and secondary hypertension, and when patients benefit from a referral to clinical hypertension experts.
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Strategies for Patient Adherence to Blood Pressure Management Therapies
Daniel Edmundowicz, MS, MD, FACP, FACC, Chief, Cardiology, Temple University Hospital discusses the challenges of maintaining long-term adherence of preventative medications for hypertension.