said his team's research held out "great hope" for the development of a treatment for emphysema in humans. He said the retinoic acid compound worked on tissue cells in the lungs, causing them to ...

their use and popularity has grown rapidly as a treatment for patients with conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD). Long-term data on how patients with severe emphysema ...

Lynch, who wrote and directed the movies "Dune" and "Blue Velvet" and co-created the TV series "Twin Peaks," was diagnosed ...

There is a paucity of efficacious treatments for subcutaneous emphysema that does not respond to chest tube drainage. Previous reports have suggested that thoracoscopy may be an efficacious treatment, ...

A NOVEL interventional treatment combining airway valve implantation in the right upper (RUL) and middle lobes (ML) has shown potential benefits for patients with severe pulmonary emphysema, ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can result from chronic bronchitis or emphysema ... symptoms usually worsen over time without treatment. You can also develop conditions like irregular ...

Introduction Endobronchial lung volume reduction with one-way valves (ELVR), in combination with staged unilateral VATS lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS), multiplicates the options of treatment for ...

Annual Meeting, researchers presented risk-adjusted findings that shed new light on treatments for severe emphysema.

In emphysema, the plateau of the waveform may slope downward if air remains trapped in the alveoli. The treatment approach for exacerbations of chronic bronchitis and emphysema is the same.

LEGENDARY director David Lynch passed away at the age of 78, after revealing he’d suffered from a terrifying lung disease ...