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Pulmonary
& Critical Care Medicine Services
Lung
and critical care specialists provide evaluation and
treatment of a wide range of acute and chronic lung
diseases. These include acute respiratory failure, asthma,
emphysema, lung cancer, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis,
pulmonary hypertension and sarcoidosis. These physicians
also have special interests in treating interstitial
pulmonary fibrosis, phrenic nerve or respiratory muscle
dysfunction and sleep-disordered breathing. The division
also has one of the most active lung transplant programs
in the world. Other unique services include ventilator
management of spinal cord injury, electrophrenic pacing
of the diaphragm and brachytherapy for lung cancer.
Exercise testing is available for evaluation of dyspnea
and determination of pulmonary disability.
Specialty
Services
Asthma
Program
Patients learn how to control their asthma so that they
can live without restrictions.
Center
for Sleep Disorders
This center includes an accredited sleep laboratory,
which offers diagnostic studies for the full range of
sleep disorders and is one of the few centers in the
region to offer an educational clinic for using continuous
positive airway pressure machines.
Cystic
Fibrosis Program
All aspects of care - social, nutritional and physical
- are available for adults with cystic fibrosis.
Lung
Transplantation
Advanced lung disease is treated in collaboration with
surgeons who perform lung transplantation and lung volume
reduction surgery.
Research
The
active research program includes studies of patient-ventilator
interactions, such as mechanisms of failure for weaning
patients off ventilator therapy and outcomes in patients
receiving long-term ventilation; sleep in the intensive
care unit; control of breathing; and rehabilitation
of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Locations
and Contacts
A full spectrum of pulmonary and critical care
medicine services is available in Maywood at:
Loyola
University Hospital
Loyola
Outpatient Center
Pulmonary
care also is offered at the following sites:
Oakbrook
Terrace Medical Center
RML Specialty Hospital in Hinsdale
If
you would like to make an appointment or need assistance
to find an appropriate physician, please call us at
(888) LUHS-888.
Related
Links
Cancer
services
Medicine services
Transplantation
services
Director
Martin
J. Tobin, MD
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