Conditions and Treatments
Pulmonary and critical care physicians with UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin, offer a broad array of diagnostic and management skills in treating the critically ill and patients with respiratory and sleep disorders.
Conditions
Our wide range of pulmonary care services involve the treatment of many disorders, including the following:
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Chronic Cough
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT)
- Emphysema
- Farmer's Lung (Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis)
- Hemoptysis (coughing up blood)
- Interstitial Lung Disease (Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis)
- Lung Cancer (nodules, mass)
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Pleural Effusion (fluid in the chest)
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax (air around the lung)
- Pulmonary Embolism (lung blood clot)
- Pulmonary Indeterminate Nodules
- Rhinitis (nasal discharge)
- Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Respiratory Failure (Respiratory Acidosis)
- Sarcoidosis
- Sinusitis
- Tuberculosis (TB)
- Upper Respiratory Infection (Common Cold)
Additional Conditions
- Asbestos exposure
- Collagen vascular diseases
- Corpulmonale
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Reactive airway disease
- Restrictive lung disease
- Wenger's Granulomatosis
Treatments, Tests and Services
- Exercise Stress Testing
- Interventional Pulmonology
- Pleural Biopsy
- Right heart and Pulmonary Artery Catheterization
- Pulmonary Function or Lung Function Testing
- Thoracentisis
Additional Treatments, Tests and Services
- Asthma management
- Bronchoalveolar lavage
- Diagnosis of infections and diseases of the lungs
- Fiber optic bronchoscopy
- Pulmonary rehabilitation
- Transbronchial lung biopsy
Sleep Disorders
Our Sleep Disorders services include:
- Fatigue
- Hypersomnolence
- Insomnia
- Narcolepsy
- Nightmares/night terrors
- Parasomnia
- Periodic Leg Movement Syndrome (PLMS)
- Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS)
- Sleep apnea
- Snoring