Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in Minnesota

Services

Mayo Clinic Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine is divided into six specialty clinics staffed by physicians with special interest and expertise in each area.

Obstructive Lung Disease Clinic

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Chronic bronchitis
• Emphysema
• Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency

Lung Cancer Clinic

• Brochoscopy Service including interventional treatment with lasers and stents
• Hemoptysis
• Lung cancer
• Lung nodule
• Mediastinal lymph node enlargement
• Mesothelioma

See information about our Lung Cancer Clinic.

Asthma Clinic

• Asthma
• Chronic cough

See information about our Asthma Clinic.

Interstitial Lung Disease Clinic

• Acute interstitial pneumonia (Hamman-Rich syndrome, idiopathic ARDS)
• Alveolar proteinosis, pulmonary phospholipoproteinosis
• Asbestosis
• Berylliosis
• Black lung disease
• BOOP (bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia)
• Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (CEP)
• Coal worker's pneumoconiosis (black lung disease)
• Connective-tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease
• Desquamative interstitial pneumonia (DIP)
• Farmer's lung
• Hamman-Rich syndrome
• Hard-metal pneumoconiosis
• Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HSP)
• Interstitial lung disease
• Lupus lung, systemic lupus erythematosus
• Lymphangiomyomatosis, lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)
• Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia (LIP)
• Mixed connective tissue disease
• Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP)
• Organizing pneumonia, cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
• Pigeon breeder's disease
• Pneumoconiosis
• Polymyositis, dermatomyositis
• Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis
• Pulmonary eosinophilic granuloma (EG), histiocytosis X (HX), or Langerhans cell granulomatosis
• Pulmonary fibrosis, or idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
• Respiratory bronchiolitis and respiratory bronchiolitis-associated interstitial lung disease (RB-ILD)
• Rheumatoid lung
• Sarcoidosis
• Scleroderma lung
• Silicosis
• Smoker's bronchiolitis
• Usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP)

See information about our Interstitial Lung Disease Clinic.

Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic

• Pulmonary hypertension

General Pulmonary Clinic

• Acute pulmonary emboli
• Chronic pulmonary emboli
• Chronic pulmonary thromboembolism
• Cough
• Fungal infections of the lung
• Granulomatous lung diseases
• Hepatopulmonary syndrome
• Osler Weber Rendu (Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangectasia)(pulmonary venous malformations)
• Portopulmonary hypertension
• Pulmonary vascular diseases
• Shortness of breath
• Tuberculosis
• Wegener's granulomatosis