OBSTRUCTIVE pulmonary emphysema, as the term is used here, refers to a chronic progressive process manifested clinically by dyspnea, which most commonly makes its appearance in middle-aged or ...

This is because the lungs will generally return to normal once the symptoms clear, unlike a related condition called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in which airways are permanently ...

or (pulmonary interstitial fibrosis) or (mouse pulmonary fibrosis) or (bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice)) AND TS=((Lung Neoplasms) or (Pulmonary Neoplasms) or (Neoplasms, Lung) or (Lung ...

Canada Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States Simmons Center for ...

Patients living with emphysema experience shortness of breath because areas within the lungs are diseased and are holding trapped air (hyperinflation of the lung). This makes it difficult to inhale ...