COPD and Lungs

Bronchitis is an inflammation of the liner of the bronchial tubes. That’s when the air tubes in your lungs called bronchi get irritated and inflamed, and you've got coughs for a minimum of 3 months a year for two years during a row. Bronchitis may be either acute or chronic. Swelling of the tubes makes it harder for your lungs to maneuver oxygen in and CO2 out of your body.

• COPD Symptoms
• Emphysema
• Mucus

Emphysema is a disease of the lungs. It occurs most frequently in smokers, but it also occurs in people that regularly inhale irritants. Emphysema destroys alveoli, which are air sacs within the lungs. The air sacs weaken and eventually break, which reduces the area of the lungs and therefore the amount of oxygen which will reach the bloodstream.

• Bronchitis
• Exhaustion
• Depression
• Fast Heartbeat

Asthma is a disease of the airways to the lungs. It makes breathing difficult and should make some physical activities challenging or even impossible. Asthma causes the inside walls of the airways, or the bronchial tubes, to become swollen and inflamed. Asthma can't be cured, but its symptoms are often controlled. Because asthma often changes over time, it's vital that you simply work alongside your doctor to trace your signs and symptoms and adjust your treatment as needed.

• Shortness of Breath
• Difficulty Talking
• Fatigue

Pulmonary hypertension could also be a life-threatening condition that gets worse over time, but treatments can help your symptoms so you'll live better with the disease. In one sort of pulmonary hypertension, called pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), blood vessels in your lungs are narrowed, blocked or destroyed.

• Sleep Apnea
• Blood clot in the Lungs
• Congestive heart failure

Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs with a variety of possible causes. It can be a serious and life-threatening disease. It happens when an infection causes the air sacs in your lungs (your doctor will call them alveoli) to fill with fluid or pus. That can make it hard for you to inhale enough oxygen to succeed in your bloodstream.

• Contagious
• Walking Pneumonia
• Diarrhea
• Antibiotics

Cystic fibrosis (CF) may be a serious genetic condition that causes severe damage to the respiratory and digestive systems. This damage often results from a build-up of thick, sticky mucus within the organs. When mucus clogs the lungs, it can become very difficult for an individual to breathe. The thick mucus also allows for germs to thrive and multiply, which may end in infections and inflammation and sometimes results in severe lung damage and respiratory failure.

• Diabetes
• Malnutrition
• Nasal Polyps

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. COVID-19 is a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that can trigger what doctors call a respiratory tract infection. It can affect your upper respiratory tract (sinuses, nose, and throat) or lower respiratory tract (windpipe and lungs).

• Sortness of breath
• Trouble Breathing

Lung cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the lungs. It is commonest in males, and within the U.S., Black males are around 15% more likely to develop it than white males. People who smoke have the best risk of carcinoma, though carcinoma also can occur in people that haven't smoked.

• Bronchi
• Trachea
• Pleura

Interventional pulmonology (IP) may be a rapidly growing, procedurally focused subspecialty of pulmonary medicine. Interventional pulmonology uses endoscopy and other tools to diagnose and treat conditions within the lungs and chest. Diseases which were previously almost considered as contraindications to bronchoscopy, like asthma and COPD/emphysema, can now, in selected cases, be treated endoscopically.

• Diagnostic Bronchoscopy
• COPD/Emphysema
• Rigid Bronchoscopy

Respiratory tract infection (RTI) is defined as any communicable disease of the upper or lower tract. Most RTIs recover without treatment, but sometimes you'll got to see your GP. Upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) include the common cold, laryngitis, pharyngitis/tonsillitis, acute rhinitis, acute rhinosinusitis and acute otitis media. Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) include acute bronchitis, bronchiolitis, pneumonia and tracheitis.

• Diagnosis
• Antibiotics
• Epidemiology

There is no formal staging system for pulmonary fibrosis. Physicians use different factors, like the ones listed below, to describe the disease as mild, moderate, severe or very severe.

• Symptoms
• Pulmonary Function Test or Lung function Test
• Six minute walk test
• A high resolution CT scan