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COPD Prognosis: What You Should Know
The prognosis for COPD can depend on many things, including how advanced your COPD is. Learn about the things that can help you know what to expect and help your health.
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Your COPD Action Plan
Learn how a COPD action plan can help you better manage your disease.
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Pulmonary Fibrosis: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments
Pulmonary fibrosis is scarring of your lung tissue. Learn more about how it happens and how it’s treated.
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Can You Live With One Lung?
Cancer or other health problems could lead you and your doctor to decide to remove one of your lungs. In most cases, one healthy lung should be able to deliver enough oxygen and remove enough carbon dioxide for your body to stay healthy.
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COPD vs. Pulmonary Fibrosis: Differences and Similarities
COPD and IPF are lung disease whose symptoms can be so similar that doctors sometimes have trouble telling them apart. Learn how they’re alike, and how they differ.
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Paraseptal Emphysema: Symptoms and Causes
Paraseptal emphysema is the least common of the three main types of emphysema. Find out the causes and symptoms of this lung disease.
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Treatment of Churg-Strauss Syndrome
If you have Churg-Strauss syndrome, find out what medicines bring down inflammation, control your symptoms, and put you into remission.
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How You Get a Diagnosis of Churg-Strauss Syndrome
Doctors use a combination of symptoms and test results to diagnose Churg-Strauss syndrome. Learn about the ways to find out if you have the disease.
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Lung Granuloma: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments
Lung granulomas are inflamed areas on your lungs that happen because of other health issues. Find out the warning signs, causes, and treatments.
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How Churg-Strauss Syndrome Affects Organs
Churg-Strauss syndrome causes inflammation that can affect many different organs.
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CPAP Therapy and COPD
Can CPAP Therapy Help COPD Symptoms? If you have COPD, can using a CPAP machine help you breathe more easily? Learn more.
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Inhaled Steroids for COPD
If you have (COPD), your doctor may prescribe inhaled corticosteroids as part of your treatment. Learn how to take them, how they can help, what the side effects might be.
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Healthy Lungs vs. Smokers’ Lungs: What You Need to Know
Your lungs help you breathe and take in oxygen. Find out more about how smoking disrupts that process and changes your lungs.
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BiPAP Therapy and COPD
BiPAP therapy uses a machine to help you breathe. Find out how this therapy works and if it can help you breathe better with COPD.
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What Is Lung Diffusion Testing?
Lung Diffusion Testing is something your doctor might suggest if he has to troubleshoot breathing issues. It measures how well your lungs are working. Learn more.
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COPD and Humidity
Changes in humidity and temperature can trigger a flare-up. Symptoms that may get worse. Learn more about COPD and Humidity.
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Pneumonitis
Pneumonitis means inflamed lungs. A number of things can irritate and inflame your lungs, from chemicals to mold, bacteria, and dust. Learn more about this condition and how to manage it.
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What Does a Respiratory Therapist Do?
Respiratory therapists help treat a host of conditions related to your lungs and breathing. Find out what they do and when you might need to see one.
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Pleuritic Chest Pain
Does your chest hurt when you breathe, cough, or laugh? This sharp, stabbing, or burning pain is called pleuritic chest pain. Find out what can cause it.
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What Is Aspergillosis?
Aspergillus is a common mold that’s just about everywhere and can cause serious problems in your lungs. Learn more about this condition, known as aspergillosis, from symptoms to how it affects your body and how to treat it.
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What Are Hyperinflated Lungs?
A hard time breathing while exercising or climbing stairs could be a sign of hyperinflated lungs. Learn more about this condition and how it’s treated.
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What Is Precordial Catch Syndrome?
From time to time, some young people may feel a sudden, knife-like pain in the chest that goes away fairly quickly. Learn what causes the pain and what it may mean.
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What Causes a Productive Cough?
When you cough and you bring up mucus, that's called a productive cough. Learn all the different things that can cause one.
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What Causes Brown Phlegm?
Your body makes phlegm, aka mucus, to sweep out harmful bacteria and allergens. The color of the phlegm can depend on the causes. Here are possible reasons why it’s brown.
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What Is Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension?
Have you had a blood clot in your lung? Find out more about chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension -- your risk, common symptoms, treatment, and prevention.
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