Advanced Lung Disease Program
Our Providers
Our pediatric specialists provide personalized care for your child’s physical, mental and emotional health needs.
Contact Information
To make an appointment or for more information, please call 202-476-6554 or email us.
Seeking the Best Outcomes for Children with Lung Disease
We partner with referring physicians and institutions to serve as the preferred destination for any child with severe and even life-threatening lung disease. Our primary goal is to preserve and recover as much lung function as possible – ideally, even to cure your child's lung disease.
Our team includes experts in pulmonology, critical care medicine, surgery, radiology, genetics, rheumatology, hematology, pathology, immunology, infectious diseases, physical therapy, nursing, nutrition, psychology and others – all working in concert.
Since the heart is often affected in children with advanced lung disease, our program emphasizes comprehensive cardiopulmonary diagnostics and rehabilitation. Moreover, our team directs the care of children with advanced lung diseases throughout the care continuum, including the outpatient, inpatient, and, if necessary, critical-care phases. This ensures seamless transition between the phases. Due to the broad expertise of our team, we are the only program in the country able to use this unique approach.
Highlights of Our Program
- Focus on interstitial and rare lung diseases as well as lung diseases causing pulmonary hypertension
- Combined clinics in rheumatology/pulmonology, thrombosis/pulmonology and blood and marrow transplant/pulmonology
- Advanced bronchoscopy and bronchoscopic and transthoracic interventions
- Comprehensive cardiopulmonary assessment and rehabilitation
- Three-tier referral prioritization: Scheduled outpatient referrals, scheduled inpatient referrals, and urgent/emergent inpatient referrals
- Routine multidisciplinary patient review and care coordination
- Lung MRI for children with radiation-sensitive conditions
- Pediatric lung transplantation
Conditions We Treat
- Advanced and end-stage lung disease and chronic respiratory failure requiring outpatient respiratory support
- Acute and chronic pulmonary embolism
- Interstitial lung disease
- Lung disease in rheumatologic conditions
- Lung disease in patients with heart disease
- Lung disease in patients with cancer, immune deficiencies, and after solid organ or bone marrow transplantation
- Pulmonary hypertension
Locations
Related Care Programs
The Advanced Lung Disease Program works with providers in the programs linked here at Children's National, providing broad expertise in the care and treatment of our patients.
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