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About pulmonology

Пульмонология - диагностика и лечение заболеваний

The pulmonology is a section of clinical medicine to which area of interest diseases of a respiratory organs get: lungs, pleura, trachea and bronchial tubes. Besides, pulmonologists specialize in development of new techniques of treatment of diseases of respiratory system, work on their prevention and diagnosis. Among similar diseases it is possible to allocate, for example, abscess, bronchial asthma, lung cancer, bronchitis, emphysema, a pneumoconiosis, a pulmonary embolism, a silicosis, an apnoea and a sarcoidosis.

The separate direction of pulmonology is the phthisiology. This direction is engaged in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of a pulmonary tuberculosis. In recent years the tendency to integration of phthisiology and pulmonology is noticeable that it is connected with change of approach to origins and the clinical course of tuberculosis. In modern medicine this disease is connected with other diseases, the caused allergic, tumoral and professional damages to respiratory system. The problem is that absolutely effective methods of treatment of tuberculosis do not exist, and the number of sick people grows every year.

Despite a number of obvious problems, the pulmonology as science, constantly develops. Today doctors can successfully reveal and treat diseases which were considered incurable earlier, and they come to light already, as a rule, at early stages that considerably facilitates process of treatment and recovery of an organism. For statement of the correct diagnosis such techniques as a bronkhoskopiya, a computer tomography, laboratory and radiological researches are used.

 
 
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