Chronic bronchitis is an established phenotype with a clinical definition, associated outcomes, and targeted treatments. [1] The same cannot be said for emphysema, but a recently published letter [2] ...

Emphysema: Pulmonary emphysema is a disorder affecting the alveoli (tiny air sacs) of the lungs. The transfer of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the lungs takes place in the walls of the alveoli. In ...

Lung cancer screening saves lives by detecting cancer early when it is most treatable. But what many people don’t realize is that the same low-dose CT scans used to screen for lung cancer can also ...

PULMONARY emphysema is one of the most common, disabling and chronically progressive diseases seen in a general hospital. The usual sequence of emphysema, bronchitis, fibrosis and progressive ...

Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are lung conditions that fall under the term chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. Some of the symptoms are similar, such as shortness of breath and wheezing ...

Visually assessed pulmonary emphysema independently predicted modestly elevated all-cause mortality risk over 25 years of follow-up in patients with a history of smoking. After controlling for other ...

Lung cancer is among the most common cancers worldwide. In the United States and other industrialized countries, it’s the major cause of cancer mortality. Emphysema is a term that describes structural ...

Emphysema is not hereditary. It usually results from smoking or exposure to other harmful lung irritants. However, a rare genetic condition called alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) passed down in ...

https://doi.org/10.4103/2045-8932.87295 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4103/2045-8932.87295 Copy URL AbstractIn this perspective, we review published data which ...

Introduction: Chest low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has recently been proved effective in lung cancer screening. Objectives: We aimed to assess the association between the occurrence of emphysema ...

Surfactant protein D (SFTPD) induces emphysema in knockout mice, but the association of SFTPD with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and emphysema in humans is unclear. Therefore, we aimed ...