Pulmonologist

Best Pulmonologist (Respiratory treatment) in Varanasi || Gangoshri hospital

Gangoshri Hospital department of Respiratory Medicine caters to the need of people having problems related to lungs, airways, pleura, mediastinum, diaphragm, and chest wall. The specialty also covers those diseases that indirectly affect breathing like sleep apnoea and neuromuscular disorders.
The problems related to the respiratory system are on the rise because of increasing air pollution, harmful effects of smoking, and growing urbanization due to population pressure. Those who have symptoms like cough, phlegm, difficulty in breathing, chest congestion, blood in phlegm, disturbed sleep patterns due to snoring can approach the pulmonologist or respiratory specialist. The spectrum of diseases for which respiratory physician services are required are:

• Asthma, disease that inflames and narrows your airways and makes it hard to breathe.
• Chronic Obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a group of lung disease that include emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
• Bronchitis, occurs when your airways are inflamed with cough and extra mucus.
• Bronchiectasis, damage your airways so they get widen and results flabby or scarred.
• Respiratory allergies
• Tuberculosis, a bacterial infection of the lungs.
• Pneumonia, an infection that makes air sacs (alveoli) in lungs inflamed and even sometimes filled with pus.

• Covid19 pneumonia, which can cause severe breathing problems and respiratory failure.

• Lung fibrosis
• Pleural effusion
• Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy
• Lung cancer
• Sleep apnoea