Our Pulmonologist is Dr. V. Arun Babu, MBBS., MD (Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases) who sees patients at Hande Hospital by appointment.
A Pulmonologist is a doctor who diagnoses and treats diseases of the Respiratory System (the lungs and other organs that help you breathe).
If your cough, shortness of breath, or other symptoms don’t get better, after you have been treated by your regular doctor, you might need to see a pulmonologist.
A pulmonologist can treat many kinds of lung problems. These include:
- Asthma, a disease that inflames and narrows your airways and makes it hard to breathe.
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a group of lung diseases that includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis
- Cystic fibrosis, a disease caused by changes in your genes that makes sticky mucus build up in your lungs
- Emphysema, which damages the air sacs in your lungs
- Interstitial lung disease, a group of conditions that scar and stiffen your lungs
- Lung cancer, a type of cancer that starts in the lungs
- Obstructive sleep apnoea, which causes repeated pauses in your breathing while you sleep
- Pulmonary hypertension, or high blood pressure in the arteries of your lungs
- Tuberculosis, a bacterial infection of the lungs
- Bronchiectasis, which damages your airways so they widen and become flabby or scarred
- Bronchitis, which is when your airways are inflamed, with a cough and extra mucus. It can lead to an infection.
- Pneumonia, an infection that makes the air sacs (alveoli) in your lungs inflamed and filled with pus
- COVID-19 pneumonia, which can cause severe breathing problems and respiratory failure