Bronchoscopy and Interventional Pulmonology
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Respiratory Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2026 | Viewed by 17
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pulmonary disease; critical care medicine; interventional pulmonology; pleural disease; thoracic oncology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Interventional pulmonology is an exciting and evolving subspecialty within the field of pulmonary medicine. It encompasses minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopic and pleural procedures to diagnose and treat a myriad of respiratory conditions such as emphysema, asthma, interstitial lung disease, central airway obstructions, and lung cancers. Continued advancements in the field have allowed for improved safety, accuracy, and benefits from these various procedures.
Advances in the field of interventional pulmonology continue to occur. Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction continues to evolve, with multiple new therapeutic modalities in various trial stages. The safety profile and diagnostic impact of transbronchial lung cryobiopsies continue to improve through the leverage of new biopsy tools and guiding imaging modalities. New advances in therapies for both malignant and non-malignant central airway obstructions offer hope for both symptom palliation and improvement in life expectancy. The improvements in real-time visualization and the intraprocedural marking of peripheral pulmonary lesions during bronchoscopic biopsies offer increased diagnostic accuracy, the potential to facilitate a lung sparing surgery, and the possibility of ablative therapy in just one procedure.
This Special Issue focused on “Bronchoscopy and Interventional Pulmonology”, welcomes experts to present a balanced overview of these exciting new possibilities, discussing the potential and limitations of each. Requisites for performing these procedures are also reviewed.
Dr. Bryan S. Benn
Dr. Jonathan Kurman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- navigation-guided bronchoscopy
- Robotic-guided bronchoscopy
- 3D imaging integration
- lung nodule/peripheral pulmonary lesion marking
- transbronchial lung cryobiopsy and interstitial lung disease
- malignant and benign central airway obstruction and stenosis
- airway stents
- pleuroscopic procedures
- bronchoscopic lung volume reduction
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