Dr. med. Konstantina Kontogianni

Training

Dr. med. Konstantina Kontogianni got her MD degree back in 2000. She became a Specialist in Respiratory Medicine in 2011 and afterwards worked in UK as a specialist registrar. While working in Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, she was granted the Level 1 Certificate of competence in Trans-Thoracic Ultrasound, according to the BTS (British Thoracic Society) requirements. During her residency she was actively engaged in Interventional Pulmonology (IP), which soon became her main field of interest. In 2012 she was granted the Long- Term Fellowship from European Respiratory Society and worked as a fellow for one year with Prof. Herth in the `Thoraxklinik` Heidelberg, Germany. Here she has been trained in all aspects of IP. Starting in 2014 and until June 2019 she has been working in `Thoraxklinik` Heidelberg as a specialist in respiratory medicine and from July 2019 as a consultant in the Department of Interventional Pulmonology.

Employment history and Research experience

She has been granted my PhD in asthma from the University of Athens Medical School in June 2015 and have contributed to study design and execution, patient selection, data collection, data analysis and manuscript preparation in several prospective randomized controlled clinical trials and she is currently principal investigator for several ongoing research projects regarding IP. Since 2014 she is a member of the European Respiratory Society College of Experts, DGP (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pneumologie und Beatmungsmedizin) and since December 2021 EABIP (European Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology) national delegate for Germany.

Interventional Pneumonology, especially Lung Volume Reduction by COPD patients, asthma, but also radiological quantitative CT characteristics in asthma and COPD, bronchoscopic diagnosis and possible treatment of peripheral lung nodules.

• COPD
• Asthma
• Lung cancer

1. Moslemi A, Kontogianni K, Brock J, Wood S, Herth F, Kirby M. Differentiating COPD and Asthma using Quantitative CT Imaging and Machine Learning. Eur Respir J. 2022 Feb 24:2103078.
2. Kontogianni K, Gompelmann D, Valipour A, Gerovasili V, Schuhmann M, Stanzel F, Herth FJF, Eberhardt R. Efficacy and Safety of the 9-mm Intrabronchial Valve in Patients with Advanced Emphysema. Respiration. 2020;99(4):333-343.
3. Kontogianni K, Russell K, Eberhardt R, Schuhmann M, Heussel CP, Wood S, Herth FJ, Gompelmann D. Clinical and quantitative computed tomography predictors of response to endobronchial lung volume reduction therapy using coils. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2018 Jul 20;13:2215-2223.
4. Kontogianni K, Gerovasili V, Gompelmann D, Schuhmann M, Hoffmann H, Heussel CP, Herth FJ, Eberhardt R. Coil therapy for patients with severe emphysema and bilateral incomplete fissures - effectiveness and complications after 1-year follow-up: a single-center experience. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2017 Jan 23;12:383-394.
5. Kontogianni K, Gerovasili V, Gompelmann D, Schuhmann M, Heussel CP, Herth FJ, Eberhardt R. Effectiveness of endobronchial coil treatment for lung volume reduction in patients with severe heterogeneous emphysema and bilateral incomplete fissures: a six-month follow-up. Respiration. 2014;88(1):52-60.
6. Kontogianni K, Bakakos P, Kostikas K, Hillas G, Papaporfyriou A, Papiris S, Koulouris NG, Loukides S. Levels of prostaglandin E (2) and Cysteinyl-leukotrienes in sputum supernatant of patients with asthma: the effect of smoking. Clin Exp Allergy. 2013 Jun;43(6):616-24.
7. Gompelmann D, Eberhardt R, Schuhmann M, Valipour A, Shah PL, Herth FJ, Kontogianni K. Lung Volume Reduction with Vapor Ablation in the Presence of Incomplete Fissures: 12-Month Results from the STEP-UP Randomized Controlled Study. Respiration. 2016;92(6):397-403.
8. Felix J Herth, Max Mayer, Jeffrey Thiboutot, Christopher M Kapp, Jiayuan Sun, Xiaoju Zhang, Jonas Herth, Konstantina Kontogianni, Lonny Yarmus. Safety and Performance of Transbronchial Cryobiopsy for Parenchymal Lung Lesions. Chest. 2021 Oct;160(4):1512-1519.

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