Dr. K K Pandey

In some patients surgery is not possible. In such cases special medicines, like Variconazole and amphotenicin are given intravenously. There medicines are effective only when whole lung is infected with aspergillus and there is no dead space or aspergilloma. Such condition is called in medical term as ‘Invasive aspergillosis’. Only in this condition intravenous administration […]

Sometimes in emergency, the other method of treatment like Bronchial artery embolization is used. In this procedure the culprit bleeding artery is blocked through angiography in order to control a catastrophic bleeding. But this treatment does not lead to a permanent cure, although this procedure is very effective in saving the life of a patient

If you are suffering from aspergilloma of lung and frequently cough out blood, amount of which sometimes becomes significant, please do not sit idle, immediately consult an experienced thoracic surgeon, otherwise your life will be in danger if ever a catastrophic bleeding occurs. The permanent and successful treatment of aspergilloma of lung is surgery, this

If sometime back you had undergone treatment for tuberculosis or abscess of lung and already got rid of infection but recently you have developed problem of cough or sometimes coughing out blood or bloody sputum, chances are you are in all probability suffering from aspergilloma of lung (Fungal ball disease). In such a situation you

Read more… Dr. K K PandeyDr. K. K. Pandey is a Senior Consultant in Thoracic & Endothoracic Surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, with 30+ years’ experience in lung cancer surgery, chest tumors, pleural diseases, VATS, esophageal surgery and minimally invasive thoracic procedures. He is also a dedicated health writer and educator.

Aspergillus fungus also attacks those lungs where capacity to fight an infection has gone down, for example transplant patients and a patient who is on a long treatment medicine of ‘steroids’ and ‘prednisolon’. Due to under-nutrition also, the defence mechanism of the body becomes weak.  This facilitates an easy entry of Aspergillus germ into the

Why does a ‘Aspergillus’ fungus enter these dead hollow spaces is not without some reason. If a patient after being cured of tuberculosis continues to live in an environment devoid of open fresh air and sunlight, this makes an easy entry for fungus germ into these dead hollow spaces of lung. If a person having

The most important cause of ‘coughing out blood’ even after successful treatment of tubercular infection is the presence of a special type of fungus germ called ‘Aspergillus Fumigatus’ which is thread-like in shape. When this fungus makes its permanent abode inside the lung, a sufferer starts coughing out blood repeatedly. What happens after an effective

Cause of Coughing out blood even after a successful treatment of tuberculosis In our country the tubercular infection is rampant. The T.B. infection is gradually acquiring an epidermic form. Every year 30 lacs new cases of tubercular infection come to light in India. The number of deaths occurring due to tuberculosis every year is around

To decide the treatment of lung cyst, you have to take into account some factors like size of the cyst,location of cyst and other associated medical conditions of the patient. Surgery is an ideal and the besttreatment of lung cyst. A person suffering from a cyst in the lung must get it removed surgically as