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 ...

An estimated 3.1 million Americans have been diagnosed with emphysema, the life-threatening condition most commonly associated with smoker's lung and long-term tobacco use. As a severe and related ...

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

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 ...

More than 11 million people in the United States are living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including more than 3 million people with emphysema, a type of COPD. This chronic lung ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A new treatment option for people with COPD or emphysema could be an alternative to lung surgery and transplant. People with COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, struggle ...

COPD treatments aim to improve patients' quality of life, with options including medication, rehabilitation, and invasive procedures. Emphysema significantly impacts patients' daily activities due to ...

Surgical emphysema is another term for subcutaneous emphysema. It occurs when air or gas enters the subcutaneous tissue, which is the deepest layer of the skin. People can develop surgical emphysema ...

The cure for emphysema is cigarette smoke piped directly into the lungs, according to chemist Gretha Zahar, whose clinic has treated 60,000 people in Jakarta, Indonesia, in the past decade. Zahar ...

COPD treatments aim to improve patients' quality of life, with options including medication, rehabilitation, and invasive procedures. Emphysema significantly impacts patients' daily activities due to ...