Lung diseases are some of the most common medical conditions in the world. Tens of millions of people have lung disease in the U.S. alone. Smoking, infections, and genes cause most lung diseases. Yourlungsare part of a complex system, expanding and relaxing thousands of times each day to ...
Find out what a lung biopsy is, why you might need one, the types of lung biopsy procedures, and when you'll get results.
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Because it is caused by infectious microbes, viral pneumonia is contagious. However, this lung infection is considered less contagious than the flu. Your risk rises if you smoke or have certain underlying medical conditions such as heart disease or diabetes. You may spit up phlegm and experience ...
Common pulmonary conditions such as lung adenocarcinoma, lung squamous cell carcinoma, and tuberculosis are typically diagnosable through imaging examinations. Nevertheless, when multiple types of lung cancer are combined with other benign tumors, how can an accurate diagnosis...
Lung biopsy is relatively a new technique as the lung has been difficult to approach through the skin. Open lung biopsy required thoracotomy. This involved splitting of chest muscles and the ribs with increased morbidity and long-lasting side effects onl
Our approach is complementary to previous work using cell-free nucleosomes14, which depends on a more limited set of reference chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing data, which are largely at the tissue level43. Readily measurable cell types include those specific to the brain, lung, intestine, ...
Because asthma causes resistance, or obstruction, to exhaled air, it is called obstructive lung disease. The medical term for such lung conditions ischronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseorCOPD. COPDis actually a group of diseases that includes not only asthma but alsochronic bronchitisandemphysema. So...
Contraction atelectasis.Also calledcicatrization atelectasis, this happenswhen the tissue that makes up your lungs has scars that keep your alveoli from being able to hold as much air as they should. This scarring can happen because of certain serious lung conditions likefibrosisor tuberculosis. ...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a long-term lung condition that makes it hard for you to breathe. COPD is a progressive disease, meaning it gradually gets worse over time. Types of COPD COPD is an umbrella term used when you have one or more of these conditions: ...