Pulmonary fibrosis is a disease where there is scarring of the lungs—called fibrosis—which makes it difficult to breathe. This is because the scarring causes the tissues in the lungs to get thick and ...

If you have been diagnosed with advanced emphysema, also called COPD, EBV treatment might be an option for you. Patients living with emphysema experience shortness of breath because areas within the ...

Many are behind the breastbone in the pleural space, which is the tissue lining the chest and surrounding the lungs. Others surround the main veins and arteries of the heart. For example ...

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, or BPD, is a serious lung condition that affects mostly babies who are born more than 10 weeks before their due date, weigh less than two and a half pounds, have breathing ...

If you have a lung disease, one treatment option your doctor may suggest is a type of surgery called a lobectomy, which involves removing a portion of your lung called a lobe. Your lungs are made ...

Lung cancer arises in tissues of the lung, usually in the cells lining air passages. The two main types are small-cell lung cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer, according to the shape of cells ...

Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common cause of Pancoast syndrome, also known as superior sulcus syndrome. Pancoast syndrome is caused by cancers that begin near the top of the lungs and invade ...

An X-ray at a polyclinic revealed shadows in her lungs, and she was immediately transferred to the hospital, where she would spend almost three months under supervised medical care. Further tests ...

Figure 1. Post gadolinium axial T1 weighted MRI (MP-RAGE, i.e.,: Magnetization Prepared - RApid Gradient Echo) demonstrates smooth leptomeningeal thickening and enhancement along the vermis and ...

Dr. Bryant Lin was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer despite never smoking. (Norbert von der Groeben/Stanford University School of Medicine) Dr. Bryant Lin, a Stanford University School of ...

Players who had engaged in a lot of soccer headers showed changes in the brain’s white matter adjacent to sulci -- deep grooves in the brain’s surface. Changes in this area are also known to ...