This is generally a nonsteroid-responsive lesion and for disabling disease, lung transplantation can ... an important respiratory illness of the small airways because of its fibrotic irreversible ...

The surface area of the small airways is vast (Fig. 1), which means it is possible for a large proportion of functional lung tissue to be destroyed before the disease becomes symptomatic.

Asthma is a long-term lung disease characterizedby inflammation ... Obstructionof the airway in asthma is generallyconsidered reversible, meaning that theobstruction of the lung can generally ...

The Baylor Medicine Airway Disease Program provides comprehensive services for all patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Our physicians offer the full spectrum of ...

Doctors say the symptoms of the life-threatening disease in those who ... starts in the outer areas of the lungs, in ...

To aid in assessing the impact of chemicals and drugs on cilia function in the small airway epithelium, the lung cilia beat frequency analysis in vitro assay is the ideal option. Using the ...

It is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ... attacks the alveoli—small, thin-walled, fragile air sacs arranged in clusters at the end of the bronchial airways deep inside your ...

Despite new medication, cystic fibrosis often leads to permanent lung damage. Working with an international team, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have discovered that the ...

Globally 400 million people live with either chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or Asthma ... which divides into progressively smaller and smaller airways until the reaching small sacs ...

ACBT: Active cycle of breathing technique; ACTs: Airway clearance techniques; AD: Autogenic drainage; AECOPD: Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; COPD: Chronic obstructive ...