Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- For people with emphysema, breathing in is hard because the lungs can't expand properly. In this week's Moves in Medicine, we learn about a procedure letting some emphysema ...

The first randomized controlled trial to compare two different lung volume reduction procedures for people with emphysema has found that both lead to similar improvements in lung function, ...

Chronic lung disease (CLD) of infancy represents the final common pathway of a heterogeneous group of pulmonary diseases that start in the neonatal period and usually evolve from acute respiratory ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with healthy controls, young patients with sickle cell anemia demonstrated more abnormalities in lung ...

Leesburg, VA, November 2, 2022—According to an accepted manuscript published in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), metrics derived from dual-energy CT (DECT) can provide insight on ...

Doctors sometimes recommend lung coils to help someone manage severe emphysema, especially when other treatments have been unsuccessful. Their benefits include increased lung volume, exercise capacity ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers measured the impact of initial respiratory droplet volume and relative humidity (RH) on the environmental stability of respiratory ...

Expiratory reserve volume is the amount of extra air above normal that you exhale during a forceful breath out. ERV is part of the data gathered in pulmonary function tests used to diagnose ...