Dec. 10—(StatePoint) 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.

Emphysema was independently predictive of all-cause mortality, COPD mortality, and CVD mortality (hazard ratios [95 percent confidence intervals], 1.29 [1.21 to 1.38; P < 0.001], 3.29 [2.59 to 4.18; P ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- There's another disease to add to the list of smoking-related ailments. But for doctors, they are still learning about CPFE or Combined Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema. For ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Right inferior pulmonary vein diameter and left ventricular short axis diameter at diagnosis are associated with ...

China: Severe emphysema, quantitatively assessed using high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT), is a strong independent ...

CLEVELAND — University Hospitals revealed Wednesday morning they are now offering a new “revolutionary” treatment for patients who are dealing with severe COPD / emphysema. “Recently approved by the ...

Spectrum Health is one of the first hospitals in Michigan to offer a novel treatment for emphysema. The treatment uses the Zephyr® Valve system, an FDA-approved minimally invasive procedure requiring ...

Cigarette smoking causes emphysema, a fatal disease involving extensive structural and functional damage of the lung. Using a guinea pig model and human lung cells, we show that oxidant(s) present in ...

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 ...