About the Department

The department of Interventional Pulmonology at Yashoda hospitals, Malakpet, Hyderabad is a high volume centre performing more than 1200 interventional pulmonology procedures every year. The bronchoscopy suite of the department is one of the most advanced in the country. Equipments available include adult and pediatric flexible bronchoscopes, linear and radial endobronchial ultrasound, flexirigid and minirigid thoracoscopes, adult and pediatric rigid bronchoscopes, electrocautery accessories, argon plasma coagulation, cryoprobes, bronchial thermoplasty, virtual bronchoscopic navigation and bronchoscopic thermal vapor ablation.

The department was the first to introduce bronchoscopic cryotherapy in the state and use the cryoprobes for performing diagnostic (trans bronchial cryo lung biopsies) and therapeutic indications. This was also the first department to launch bronchial thermoplasty and Virtual bronchoscopic navigation in the state. Advanced procedures like tracheobronchial stenting, balloon bronchoplasties, tumor removals and bronchial thermoplasty are performed regularly.