A component of our interventional pulmonology research is to describe the outcomes of our procedures. With new developments in advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy, we wish to detail our experiences as we aim to improve diagnostic yield, safety, radiation exposure, and efficiency of procedures at our institution. Robotic-assisted bronchoscopy is a new technique to obtain targeted lung biopsies.
We use this technology in a multimodality approach with radial endobronchial ultrasound, cone beam computed tomography, and fluoroscopy. The obtained transbronchial lung cryobiopsies are useful in the evaluation of pulmonary lesions or selected areas in diffuse parenchymal lung disease. Our group has published outcomes with the concurrent use of shape-sensing robotic-assisted bronchoscopy combined with fixed cone beam CT and radial EBUS in the evaluation of peripheral pulmonary lesions.
We reported our diagnostic accuracy outcomes in our initial 200-patient cohort and published a subsequent study describing the radiation exposure and outcomes in 241 patients using this multimodality technique.
