George Pyrgos, MD, with a pulmonary patient at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center. 

Pulmonary medicine is a subspecialty of internal medicine that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the respiratory tract. A pulmonologist has expertise in the evaluation of patients with breathlessness, cough, wheezing, and chest tightness, as well as abnormalities of the chest x-ray, chest CT scan, and other chest imaging studies.

Disorders frequently diagnosed and managed by a pulmonologist include:

• Arterial Blood Gas
• Asbestosis
• Asthma
• Bronchiectasis
• Chest Radiography
• Chronic Bronchitis
• Computerized Tomography
• COPD
• Cystic Fibrosis
• Emphysema
• Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
• Lung Cancer and Tumors
• Lung Scan
• Occupational Lung Disease
• Oximetry
• Pleural Effusions
• Pneumonia
• Pneumothorax
• Pulmonary Embolism
• Pulmonary Function Tests
• Pulmonary Hypertension
• Respiratory Failure
• Sarcoidosis