Lung Care & Sleep Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Chestnut Hill
About Our Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine Services
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Chestnut Hill (BIDMC – Chestnut Hill) provides pulmonary (lung care) and sleep medicine services for patients. Conditions we treat include:
- Sleep apnea/sleep-related breathing disorders
- Insomnia
- Narcolepsy
- Restless leg syndrome
- Circadian rhythm disturbances
- Parasomnias (such as sleepwalking and nightmares)
- Asthma, chronic cough or shortness of breath/dyspnea
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung conditions such as bronchitis, pneumonia, bronchiectasis (airway damage) or hemoptysis (coughing up blood)
- Pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure in the lung arteries) and pulmonary embolism (blockage in the lung)
- Interstitial lung diseases (inflammation and scarring of lung tissue), such as idiopathic (unknown cause) pulmonary fibrosis
- Sarcoidosis (chronic lung disease)
- Mycobacterial disease (an infection causing lung symptoms, similar to tuberculosis)
- Lung nodules and lung cancer
Special Testing: Pulmonary Functions Tests and Sleep
At BIDMC – Chestnut Hill, we are pleased to offer pulmonary function tests (PFT), which are breathing tests to measure how well your lungs are working. The most common lung function test is spirometry, which measures the amount of air your lungs can hold and how long it takes to exhale.
Our Sleep Disorders Center includes pulmonary and neurology sleep medicine physicians. We offer overnight and daytime sleep laboratory studies at our main Sleep Lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital – Needham and at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital – Milton. We also offer home sleep studies for our patients.
