Environmental factors like smoking or chemical exposure are usually the culprit in lung disorders like COPD or emphysema. However, some of those cases are actually driven by genetics. We inherit our ...

For adults with a history of smoking undergoing low-dose CT for lung cancer screening, emphysema is predictive of mortality up to 25 years.

Doctors at Temple Health recently completed a study that led to a breakthrough treatment for severe emphysema, the first treatment of its kind approved by the FDA. Emphysema is a type of chronic ...

Emphysema detected on baseline low-dose chest CT (LDCT) in the lung cancer screening cohort of more than 9,000 asymptomatic ...

New York (MedscapeWire) Feb 22 — Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects twice as many Americans as diabetes and is the nation's fourth-leading cause of death, but little is known about ...

"Until now, we didn't know if baseline visual emphysema scoring on LDCT in the lung cancer screening setting had any prognostic value," Henschke said in a statement. "Our study stands out for its long ...

Emphysematous changes refer to changes that may occur in the lungs as emphysema progresses and are visible on a CT scan. This may include changes in location or the type of damage in the lungs due to ...