UAB Medicine St. Vincent’s Eastern Pulmonary

UAB Medicine St. Vincent’s Eastern Pulmonary provides care for lung diseases and sleep disorders. This includes conditions that may affect your quality of life by interfering with normal breathing, such as:

• Asthma
• Bronchitis (recurring)
• COPD
• Emphysema
• Lung cancer
• Lung infections
• Pneumonia
• Sleep apnea
• Snoring

Our pulmonology doctors diagnose your respiratory condition and identify lifestyle changes and treatments for it. We listen to understand your condition and create a personalized care plan.

Tests and treatments

Our freestanding outpatient clinic provides pulmonary function testing to determine how well your lungs are working. We also provide pulmonary rehabilitation services to help you recover after heart or lung surgery or as part of your respiratory care plan.

We provide specialty care to help manage your asthma symptoms or changes in cystic fibrosis. Your care team provides tests and non-surgical treatments to help improve your lung function, including:

• Bronchoscopy, a diagnostic test of your airways
• Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation
• Endobronchial ultrasound biopsy
• Oxygen therapy
• Programs to help you stop smoking
• Pulmonary function test
• Sleep study and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy
• Vasodilator medication therapy

Your doctor may refer you for a sleep study to help diagnose a sleep disorder and identify a treatment plan for your condition. Our care team coordinates your sleep lab study or at-home sleep apnea test, then your pulmonary medicine doctor analyzes the results and discusses treatment options.