Sajive Aleyas, MD

A board-certified interventional pulmonologist and critical care specialist, Sajive Aleyas, MD, is one of the few pulmonologists in the country with advanced training in interventional pulmonology and lung cancer. Dr. Aleyas’s brings significant expertise and advanced diagnostic and therapeutic options to fighting lung cancer and other complex airway diseases. Dr. Aleyas accepts patients in all stages of lung cancer, as well as patients with complex airway diseases. Some of his areas of expertise include:

•  Management of pulmonary nodules
• Diagnosis, staging and treatment of lung cancer
• Evaluation for lung cancer screening
• Mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy
• Management of malignant pleural effusions
• Foreign body removal
• Tracheal stenosis
• Tracheobronchial malacia
• Tracheoesophageal fistulas
• Post-surgical bronchopleural fistula

Advanced Diagnostic Techniques

• Flexible and rigid bronchoscopy
• Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy
• Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial biopsy (EBUS-TBNA)

Advanced Therapeutic Interventional Procedures

• Airway stenting (metallic stents and silastic stents )
• Tumor debulking
• Brachytherapy
• Balloon dilation
• Electrocautery
• Laser therapy
• Foreign body removal
• Microdebridement
• Pleuroscopy
• Pleurx® catheter placement and management

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