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Recognizing and Treating Tracheobronchomalacia
"Tracheobronchomalacia (TBM) is an under-recognized cause of shortness of breath, recurrent respiratory infections and chronic coughing. It involves collapse of the main airways, due to a weakness of the cartilage and/or floppiness of the posterior membranous wall. The activity will inform physicians and advanced practitioners about the importance of a multidisciplinary approach in the management of TBM, from diagnosis to treatment. We emphasize the need of reserving surgery to severely symptomatic patients who fail medical therapy, and the importance of objective long-term follow-up of this challenging condition."
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Temple Lung Center Physician Guide
Thanks to our collaboration with physicians like you, we are now one of the largest pulmonary centers in the region (over 32,000 patient visits per year). We also perform 13,000 pulmonary function tests and 1,000 bronchoscopies every year.
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Sarcoidosis PH Case Study
Bernard is a 37-year-old man with sarcoidosis initially diagnosed by lung biopsy in 2009. The sarcoidosis affects his skin, lungs, lymph nodes, and liver. He was referred to the Temple Lung Center for a lung transplantation evaluation due to severe pulmonary hypertension and poor exercise capacity. He had severe dyspnea, chronic dry cough, and chest tightness, as well as palpitation and dizziness. His constitutional symptoms included weight loss and fatigue.
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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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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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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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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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Diaphragm Dysfunction
While respiratory muscle dysfunction is well-documented, it’s often an underdiagnosed cause of dyspnea, and requires a multidisciplinary approach. Sources range from focal diaphragm dysfunction to systemic neuromuscular disease, often with overlooked symptoms and delayed diagnosis. This CME activity is divided into three sections, with a focus on general approach and diagnostic modalities for patients with suspected respiratory muscle impairment, surgical interventions for unilateral diaphragm dysfunction, and evaluation and treatment of systemic neuromuscular diseases.
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Lung Cancer Screening and SPN in the Patient with COPD
Patients with advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) are at increased risk of lung cancer, and should be screened with low-dose CT.
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Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction - A conversation with national expert - Gerard J. Criner, MD - Podcast recorded by the American Association for Bronchology & International Pulmonology
In this podcast recorded by the American Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, Gerard J. Criner, MD discusses patient selection for Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction.
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Targeted Lung Denervation
Gerard J. Criner, MD, FACP, FACCP, discusses the AIRFLOW-3 study which evaluates the efficacy of targeted lung denervation for patients with COPD.