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 is a lung disease that damages the air sacs, making it difficult to breathe, especially during physical activity. Smoking is the primary cause of emphysema, but exposure to irritants, ...

Emphysema happens gradually as tobacco smoke or other pollutants damage the tiny air sacs in your lungs called alveoli. Normally, some 300 million alveoli help bring oxygen into your body and get rid ...

Emphysema is a disease that makes it hard for you to catch your breath. Stage 4 means your emphysema is advanced and that your breathing is very severely affected. At this stage, smoking or other ...

Emphysema is a form of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. Centrilobular emphysema is a specific type of emphysema that affects the upper lobes of the lungs. Centrilobular emphysema is the ...

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 ...

With emphysema, you can have symptoms like shortness of breath, coughing, wheezing, and chest tightness. Your symptoms can ...

Subcutaneous emphysema is the medical term for air becoming trapped in tissues beneath the skin. It is rare, but may occur as a result of trauma, injury, infection, or certain medical procedures.