Bronchoscopy side effects may include numbness and soreness in the throat, sedation, and low oxygen blood levels. Although bronchoscopy is usually safe, it has a risk of complications, such as ...

A fiberoptic bronchoscopy is a medical procedure that allows a doctor to examine the airways, take samples for biopsy, remove objects from the airways, and perform minor treatments. A fiberoptic ...

Oral antiplatelet agents such as aspirin and clopidogrel are used to prevent strokes, heart attacks, and other atherothrombotic events. Certain invasive procedures carry a degree of bleeding risk that ...

Bronchoscopy is a procedure that allows your doctor to see inside the airways of your lungs. If a small piece of tissue is taken during the procedure, it’s called a transbronchial biopsy and is used ...

November 9, 2011 — Whenever feasible, topical anesthesia, analgesic, and sedative agents should be used for flexible bronchoscopy in adults, according to a consensus statement from the American ...

As lung cancer screening identifies an estimated 1.6 million suspicious lung nodules each year in the U.S. alone, physicians face a challenge. Most peripheral pulmonary lesions are benign, yet the ...

Lung nodule biopsies performed with new robotic bronchoscopy technology may be safer and more effective than those done by traditional methods, a study by researchers at UT Southwestern suggests. UT ...

Each year, millions of pulmonary nodules are identified incidentally or through lung cancer screening, and many involve biopsy to distinguish cancer from benign processes. Both navigational ...

Lung nodule biopsies performed with new robotic bronchoscopy technology may be safer and more effective than those done by traditional methods, a study by researchers at University of Texas (UT) ...

A new tool is being used by doctors with St. Peter's Health Partners (SPHP) in an effort to help improve early detection of ...