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In lung disease almost everything is decided before treatment begins. A shadow on a scan, a cough that has not gone away in three months, a nodule deep in the lung that is hard to reach — none of these call for “let’s watch it for another six months” but for a clear answer: what is this tissue and what should be done about it. Dr Wolfgang Gesierich works on exactly that part of the job.
Who he is and where he practises
Dr med. Wolfgang Gesierich is a specialist in internal medicine with a focus on pulmonology and an additional qualification in emergency medicine. He is now chief physician of the pulmonology clinic and medical director (Ärztlicher Direktor) of the Asklepios Lungenklinik Gauting — a specialist lung hospital in Gauting near Munich, about half an hour from the city centre.
One correction is worth making here, because it matters in practice. Many pages online still list him as a doctor at the Helios München West hospital in Munich. He did work there and built up its lung centre, but in 2020 he returned to Gauting, where he had come from. Enquiries and requests for a consultation should go to Gauting.
What he does specifically
His main field is bronchoscopy — examining the airways from inside through a thin flexible instrument. Diagnostic bronchoscopy takes a piece of tissue or cells from a suspicious area so that a pathologist can say precisely whether it is a tumour, inflammation or scar tissue. Therapeutic — interventional — bronchoscopy removes a growth blocking the airway, places a stent so that the patient can breathe again, or stops bleeding.
The conditions he works with are lung tumours, interstitial lung disease (where lung tissue is gradually replaced by scar tissue), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and severe asthma. The Gauting hospital was the first in Bavaria to use robotic bronchoscopy: it can reach lesions in the periphery of the lung that an ordinary bronchoscope cannot, and in some cases spares the patient a more invasive way of obtaining a sample.
How we arrange an appointment
We collect and translate your documents — CT scans, reports, results of earlier biopsies — send them to the hospital and get an answer on whether an appointment in person makes sense and what exactly will be needed. Then we agree a date, help with the invitation for the visa, meet you and accompany you with an interpreter at the appointment and the examinations. Payment goes directly to the hospital at its own rates; the hospital issues the invoice.
This material is for information only and does not replace a consultation with a doctor. Whether treatment is possible, what it will involve and what it will achieve can be determined only after an examination at the clinic in person. The doctor’s availability and the practical arrangements are confirmed at the time of your enquiry.