Phone: 434-654-5260
Location: Sentara Martha Jefferson Medical and Surgical Associates, 500
Martha Jefferson Drive, Fifth Floor, Charlottesville, VA 22911
Diagnosis and treatment of lung and chest conditions often leads to multiple visits with more than one physician. At Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital, we're committed to ensuring you have the best available access to a multidisciplinary team of specialists that you need for the most appropriate care. We make sure your care is coordinated among all appropriate physicians in a timely manner.
When surgery is necessary for patients with lung cancer or other conditions of the lungs or chest, our cardiothoracic surgery team offers some of the most innovative surgery techniques available in the nation.
Our surgeons use smaller incisions that are less painful and spare surrounding muscle to make recovery easier. Technologic advances in instrumentation and video surgery are used so that minimally invasive surgery is possible, even when the surgeons perform major resections.One such innovation is Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS), which can be used for diagnostic and treatment procedures. Using VATS, surgeries that would have required much more invasive techniques, now are performed using two to three small incisions and tasks such as rib-spreading are not necessary. Tumors in high-risk patients previously deemed inoperable with conventional methods may be amenable to these minimally invasive techniques.
Other specialized treatments we offer include:
- Thoracic oncologic surgery, both pulmonary and esophageal
- Pulmonary resections
- Chest wall, mediastinal and diaphragmatic surgery
- Interventional bronchoscopy