Prasoon Jain – författare

The field of interventional bronchoscopy is rapidly expanding and has emerged as a new and exciting subspecialty in pulmonary medicine. To date, the impact of interventional bronchoscopy procedures has been felt in diagnosis, staging, and management of lung cancer, the most lethal cancer worldwide.  Interventional Bronchoscopy: A Clinical Guide provides a state-of-the art description of interventional bronchoscopy procedures, addressing the scientific basis, indications, techniques, results, complications, and cost issues.  Chapters address the current status, the advantages of new techniques and, most importantly, when to choose new techniques over the existing techniques.  Each chapter will discuss the future of these procedures.  Interventional Bronchoscopy:  A Clinical Guide is an essential resource for a successful interventional pulmonology service and will be useful for the bronchoscopist, anesthesiologist, radiologist, thoracic surgeon and oncologist as well as practicing pulmonologists who do not perform these procedures but have to make decisions regarding appropriate referral of their patients to advanced airway centers.

This book explores the non-interventional aspects ofinterventional pulmonology, focusing on diseases of the central airways. As thefield of bronchology and interventional pulmonology expands, newer conditionsinvolving the central airways are being recognized with increasingfrequency.  Current literature has mainly focused on technical aspects ofthe subspecialty, but this book illuminates what else interventionalpulmonology has to offer the pulmonologist, including diagnosis and alternatetherapeutic options.  Diseases of the Central Airways: A Clinical Guidepresents techniques for the diagnoses, management and treatment of patientswith intriguing central airway conditions such as: black bronchoscopy,tracheobronchomalacia, endobronchial tuberculosis, and tracheobronchopathiaosteochondroplastica.  In-depth chapters are written by international expertsand are up-to-date and comprehensive reviews.  This important new bookwill contribute significantly to the welfare of patients with lung ailments ofthe central airways. ​