Chronic emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) caused by damage to the air sacs in the lungs. Although there is no cure, you can manage the disease with lifestyle changes ...

Obstructive emphysema causes the air sacs in the lungs to rupture and enlarge. This leads to fewer but larger air sacs, limiting airflow in and out of the lungs. Obstructive emphysema, or emphysema, ...

Emphysematous changes refer to changes that may occur in the lungs as emphysema progresses and are visible on a CT scan. This may include changes in location or the type of damage in the lungs due to ...

Pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema are two lung conditions that have some symptoms in common. These include a cough, shortness of breath, tiredness, and swelling in the legs. In addition to having ...

A landmark clinical study in the Lancet provides convincing evidence that a frequently overlooked therapy for genetically-caused emphysema is effective and slows the progression of lung disease. Alpha ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian in New York have discovered that injecting mice with pulmonary endothelial cells—the cells that line the walls of blood vessels in the ...

Bilateral heterogenous emphysema was the most comment presentation in patients referred for bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR), based on data from more than 200 individuals presented at the ...