Learn more about how COPD affects your health and changes your body, ... To understand COPD’s pathophysiology, it’s important to understand the structure of the lungs and how they work: ...

The current pathophysiology of COPD encompasses three main characteristics: emphysema, chronic bronchitis and small airway disease. Macrophages and neutrophils are implicated in this process; thus ...

However exposure to any irritant, noxious airborne particles (for example, organic and inorganic dusts) and chemical fumes that can be inhaled into the lungs present an underestimated risk of COPD ...

Charles Burger, MD: Pulmonary hypertension really refers to a state where the right heart is generating high pressures to circulate the blood through the lung. Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a ...

This pathophysiology involves damage that impairs the lungs' ability to recoil: ... Zysman’s main research interest is COPD and its physiopathology and since 2021 has raised 607,000 euros in ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a group of progressive lung diseases. Here’s what you should know about symptoms, diagnosis, and management.

However exposure to any irritant, noxious airborne particles (for example, organic and inorganic dusts) and chemical fumes that can be inhaled into the lungs present an underestimated risk of COPD ...

1 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, Tannourine Governmental Hospital, Batroun, Lebanon. 2 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal ...