Core competencies
Her special interests include:
Evaluation, diagnosis, management and treatment of different adult lung conditions including:
- Bronchial asthma( mild, moderate and severe resistant asthma )
- Cough disorders and breathing difficulty
- Full pulmonary function testing: spirometry, diffusion testing (DLCO), lung volumes (body plethysmography )
- Pneumonia (viral , bacterial and others)
- Lung cancer screening and early detection
- Mediastinal and pleural disorders
- Respiratory ICU and non-invasive ventilation
- Bronchoscopy
- COPD cases
- Interstitial lung diseases pulmonary fibrosis , connective tissue associated ILD
- Suppurative lung diseases (lung abscess, bronchiectasis)
- Tuberculosis and fungal respiratory diseases
- Occupational and environmental lung disease
- Pleural effusion with pleural fluid aspiration (diagnostic & therapeutic)
Sleep disorders (adults):
Diagnosing and managing obstructive sleep apnea OSA and excessive daytime sleepiness, performing:
- Polysomnography (sleep studies) both home and hospital based sleep study
- Overnight pulse oximetry
- Sleep hygiene teaching
Researches and publications :
- Non invasive ventilation in comparison to SIMV with pressure support in weaning of COPD patients from mechanical ventilation
- Micro RNA genetic signature in non small cell lung cancer(NSCLC ) patients
Profile
- Nationality
- Egyptian
- Summary
- Dr Samar Mansour is a specialist pulmonologist with an MD doctor of medicine in pulmonology and over 13 years of experience. She is also a lecturer at a faculty of medicine with special interest in dealing with cases of bronchial asthma, pneumonia and respiratory failure in ICU in need of oxygen therapy , assisted ventilation and bronchoscopy.
She was trained at a university hospital in Egypt and worked there as assistant lecturer then lecturer and has presented scientific papers and contributed as a speaker in many local conferences. She has also attended multiple international symposia, workshops, and conferences.
She has worked in the UAE since 2019 in a multispeciality clinic and hospital in Dubai, dealing with different cases of respiratory diseases. She is also a member of the ERS (European Respiratory Society), ACCP (American College Of Chest Physicians) and ASCAI (Australian Society Of Clinical Allergy and Immunology).
Qualification
- MBBCH
Master and Doctorate Degree (MD )in Respiratory Medicine
Contact
Practices at
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Mediclinic Al Noor Hospital
Specialist pulmonologist
In department pulmonology / respiratory