Pulmonary Medicine

Pulmonary Medicine at Wellstar

Wellstar’s pulmonologists help people with conditions of the lungs to manage their health to live and breathe better. Patients often see a pulmonologist when conventional approaches at managing these illnesses don’t work, or when their case is more complicated.

Some common conditions our pulmonologists diagnose and treat include COPD, asthma, pneumonia, the buildup of fluid in the lungs and lung cancer.

Our pulmonary medicine specialists typically work as part of a team of specialists to care for patients, collaborating with primary care physicians, surgeons and therapists. They have access to the latest and most innovative technology for diagnostics and treatment, which can range from medicine and therapy to minimally invasive procedures or open chest surgery.

What we treat

• Advanced sleep phase syndrome
• Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
• ARDS
• Asthma
• Asthmatic bronchitis
• Bronchiectasis
• Bronchiolar disease
• Bruxism (teeth grinding)
• Carcinoid tumors
• Central sleep apnea
• Chest pain
• Childhood asthma
• Chronic bronchitis
• Chronic cough
• Chronic granulomatous disease
• Chronic pulmonary thromboembolism
• Complex sleep apnea
• COPD
• Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
• Cystic fibrosis
• Delayed sleep phase
• Emphysema
• Fungal lung infection
• Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
• Hepatopulmonary syndrome
• Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
• Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
• Idiopathic hypersomnia
• Insomnia
• Interstitial lung disease
• Lung cancer
• Lung nodule
• Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
• Mediastinal lymph node enlargement
• Mesothelioma
• Mycobacterial infection
• Narcolepsy
• Nicotine dependence
• Niemann-Pick
• Nightmare disorder
• Nocturnal epilepsy
• Non-24
• Nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease
• Obstructive sleep apnea
• Parasomnia
• Pediatric obstructive sleep apnea
• Pickwickian syndrome
• Pleural disease
• Pleural effusion
• Pneumonia
• Pneumothorax
• Portopulmonary hypertension
• Posterior cortical atrophy
• Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation
• Pulmonary embolism
• Pulmonary fibrosis
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Pulmonary valve disease
• REM sleep behavior disorder
• Respiratory failure
• Restless legs syndrome
• Sarcoidosis
• Sleep disorders
• Sleep terrors (night terrors)
• Sleep-related breathing disorders
• Sleep-related eating disorder
• Sleepwalking
• Snoring
• Transplant disorder
• Tuberculosis
• Ventilator associated condition