The department provides compassionate and state-of –the-art care for patients with acute and chronic respiratory disorders. A well equipped 5 bedded Respiratory ICU is staffed with doctors and nurses round the clock. The general ward has 30 beds with centralized oxygen supply and 4 isolation beds.

Some of our specialized services include

• Video Bronchoscopy with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
• Medical Thoracoscopy with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
• Respiratory ICU & Critical care
• PFT lab – Spirometry, DLCO, Lung volume studies & broncho-provocation testing.
• Sleep lab – level 1 in house attended polysomnography.
• Bronchial artery embolization and pulmonary angiogram along with department of Cardiology.
• Pulmonary imaging & interventions with department of Radiology
• Point of care chest ultrasound
• Tuberculosis treatment under NTEP with pre-MDR testing by Gene Xpert and LPA.
• COVID – 19 Comprehensive care

Special Clinics:

• Allergy & Asthma Clinic – Tuesdays
• Lung Cancer Clinic – Thursdays
• Pulmonary Rehab Clinic – Fridays.

Some of the rare cases reported include:

Idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis, pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis, pulmonary amylodosis, Wegners Granulomatosis, pulmonary sarcoidosis, meliodosis, chronic necrotizing pulmonary aspergillosis, invasive aspergillosis, pneumocystis jeroveci pneumonia, pulmonary nocardiosis. bronchiolo-alveolar cell carcinoma, Langerhans cell histiocytosis, mediastinal teratoma, thymoma, primitive neuroendocrine tumour in the posterior mediastinum, , Bronchial adenoma (carcinoid), Katageners syndrome, Pulmonary mucormycosis, Mediastinal hemangioma with kasabach merritte syndrome etc.

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Publication in the last 5 years:

1. Sebin John Thampan, Pinkutty Sagar, K. H. Kisku,Case Series – “Cystic Lung Lesions (CLL), and Pneumothorax in COVID-19 Patients”. 2023 June;Vol (8):109-115.
2. Dhinesh Kumar, Sebin John Thampan, Jackin Moses, Arun Prasath "Case study: 41-year old female with Proximal Interruption of right Pulmonary artery (Pirpa) with patent ductus arteriosus (PAD)".GJRA-GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS Jan 2023;Vol12:35-36
3. Jackin. R. Moses,. “Impact of sedation during Bronchoscopy – The best practice of sedation”. IJMSIR: A Medical Publication Hub 2022 Nov 2022;8:80-91.
4. Antonious Maria Selvam, Praveen Radhakrishnan, Yuvarajan Sivagnaname. “Vitamin D3 levels in patients with Pulmonary tuberculosis – A Cross – sectional study. ISSN.2022;29:8019-8028.
5. P. Stalin, M. Manikandan, N. Murugan, Zile Singh, KH Kisku, Anil Jacob Purty. “Identifying and Addressing Factors contributing to pretreatment Loss to follow-up Tuberculosis Patients referred for Treatment from Medical Colleges in Pondicherry: An implementation Research”. Indian journal of community medicine. 2020:45:27-31.
6. Dr. S. Mohanraj, Prof. K.V.V. Vijayakumar M.D, Dr. S. Indhu. “The cycle of Threshold value of cartridge Based Nucleic Acid amplification as a measure of sputum Bacillary Burden. IOSR-JDMS Dec.2020;(19):6-12
7. Varughese Prince, Mathew Varghese. “A case of Chronic semi invasive aspergillosis in an Immunocompetent Host”. International Journal of Scientific Research.2020;9:1-2.
8. Varughese Prince, Mathew Varghese. “A case of unilateral Pulmonary Edema due to lung Re-Expansion following simple aspiration for spontaneous pneumothorax”. International Journal of Scientific Research. 2020;9:1-2.
9. Prince George Varughese, Arun Prasath, Asha Undrajavarapu. “Assessment of Bronchiectasis with faced score and correlation with Quality of Life by St. George Respiratory Questionnaire”. Indian Journal of applied research.2020;10:1-3.
10. Varughese Prince, Jahangir S, Divya Mary. “Assessment of Bronchiectasis with BSI score and Correlation with Quality of Life by St George Respiratory Questionnaire”. Journal of Medical science and Clinical Research.2020;8:6-11.
11. Varughese Prince, Mathew Varghese, Sebin John Thampan. “Assessment of Broncheiectasis using faced score and bronchiectasis severity index”. PARIPEX - Indian Journal of Research. 2020; 7:1-3.
12. Varughese Prince, Divya Mary. “A rare case of Primary Benign Peural Schwannoma”. GJRA – Global Journal for research analysis. 2020;9:59-60.
13. Jackin Moses R, Neena Priyamalar R.M., Shiplpa Ravi. “Impact of clinical pharmacist intrervention in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease management”. UJRMS 2020;8: 3944 – 3449.
14. Jackin Moses R, Karthick Narayanan P. “ Predictors of Nocturnal Oxygen Desaturation in Normoxemic Patients with Moderate to Very Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease”. IJCMR 2019;6:J1-J5.
15. Jackin Moses R, Anantharaman R, Kottoorathu Mammen Cherian. “ Bronchoscopic surveillance during early postoperative period after lung transplantation”. 2019IJRMS;7:4475-4478.
16. K.Sandhya Bhat, K H Kisku, Reba Kanungo. “Candida auris candidemia an emerging threat: A case report and mini review of the literature”. J Curr Res Sci Med 2019;5:110-3
17. Jahangir S, K H Kisku, Niranjan B. “Can PEFR be used as a substitute to FEV1 in diagnosing COPD in primary care settings”. PERIPES – Indian Journal of Research 2019; 8:5-8.
18. Mathew Varghese, Mahendra Kumar Baunara. “Role of Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Sputum-Smear Negative, Clinically and Radiologically suspected New cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. PARIPEX – Indian Journal of Research.2019;(8):1-4.
19. Antonious Maria Selvam, Praveen Radhakrishnan, YYuvarajan Sivagnaname. “Vitamin D3 levels in patients with Pulmonary tuberculosis – A cross-sectional study”.CrossMark.2019;(29):8019-8028.
20. Yuvarajan Sivagnaname, Praveen Radhakrishnan, Antonious Maria Selvam. “Thoracoscopic pleural brushing - an innovative method of pleural sampling in diagnostic medical thoracoscopy”. Adv Respir Med. 2019;87:257-260.
21. S. Yuvarajan, R. Praveen, Antonious Maria Selvam. “Role of indwelling pleural cathetes in hepatic hydrothorax”. IP Indian Journal of Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, July – Sept.,2019;4(2):147-149.
22. Antonious Maria Selvam. “Case reports in literature n bronchial ulcers”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 2019;89:54-55