Interventional Pulmonology

When You Can't Breathe, Nothing Else Matters

                               
          Tracheal                          Before Dilation                 A different patient with tracheal 
          Stenosis                                                                                 obstruction by tumor

                                             (scroll mouse over images to view post-procedure results)

About our Practice

We provide multidisciplinary care for patients with all aspects of central airway obstruction due to either malignant or non-malignant disease. The complex airway team includes Interventional Pulmonology, Thoracic Surgery, Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and Anesthesiology. Our goal is to provide expeditious care in a multidisciplinary fashion with outstanding communication to both the patient and the referring physicians. To help achieve these goals, pateints are discussed at a Multidisciplinary Complex Airway Conference.

In addition to airway obstruction from malignancy, we treat non-malignant central airway obstruction due to diseases such as tracheobronchomalacia, tracheal or sub-glottic stenosis, relapsing polychondritis, amyloidosis, tracheobronchial papillomatosis and Wegener’s granulomatosis. We are fortunate to have all modalities for central airway intervention available to us, allowing treatment to be tailored to each patient. These technologies include:

• Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)
• Autofluorescence and narrow-band imaging
• Thermal techniques including argon plasma coagulation (APC), electrocautery, laser and cryotherapy
• Photodynamic therapy
• Electromagnetic navigational bronchoscopy
• Endobronchial brachytherapy
• Silicone, metallic, and hybrid airway stents
• Powered instrumentation (microdebrider)

Patients with pleural effusions, mediastinal adenopathy and lung nodules or masses are also evaluated and treated in a multidisciplinary approach with members of Interventional Pulmonology, Thoracic Surgery, Medical Oncology and Radiation Oncology. We also perform ultrasound guided pleural procedures such as placment of PleurX® and pigtail catheters, and medical thoracoscopy.

Scheduling an Appointment

New Patients

Please call our administrative assistant, Merry Doss, at (410) 502-2533 to facilitate a new patient referral or schedule an appointment. 

Before the appointment, all pertinent medical records from referring physicians should be faxed to (410) 955-0036.  

Patients should bring recent X-rays, CT scans and PET scans either as a ‘hard copy’ or on CD to their appointment or make them available prior to the appointment.

Please refer to the links below for procedure related information.

Location

Interventional Pulmonology Clinic
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
7th Floor
601 N. Caroline Street
Baltimore, MD  21287

Mailing address
Interventional Pulmonology
1830 Monument Street - 5th floor
Baltimore, Maryland   21287
Phone:  (410) 502-2533
Fax:     (410) 955-0036

Our Physicians

David Feller-Kopman, MD
Director, Interventional Pulmonology
Associate Professor of Medicine
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

 

Lonny Yarmus, DO
Interventional Pulmonology Fellow 

Rex Yung, MD
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Stephen Yang, MD
Chief, Thoracic Surgery
Associate Professor of Surgery and Oncology    

Lynnette Mark
Clinical Director, Weinberg Operating Rooms
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery   

Nassir Bhatti
Associate Professor Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

    

Our Staff

Merry Doss
Administrator
Phone:  (410) 502-2533
Fax:     (410) 955-0036

Additional Links and Procedure Information

- Example of EBUS TBNA of 11L lymph node
- Johns Hopkins Hospital campus map
- Bronchoscopy information
- Percutaneous Tracheostomy Program
- PleurX® catheter drainage video
- Photodynamic therapy information
- Thoracoscopy information

- Bronchoscopy Anesthesia Checklist Instructions

- Bronchoscopy Anesthesia Checklist