(Photo by Prima Barol/Anadolu via Getty Images) Although no cause of death or further details were given, the news comes months after Lynch announced he had been living with emphysema. In an ...

David Lynch, writer and director of the Hollywood movies “Dune” and “Blue Velvet” and co-creator of the TV series “Twin Peaks,” has died at age 78, less than six months after ...

Doctors also call it distal acinar emphysema. It mainly damages the tiny ducts that connect to your lung’s fragile air sacs that help you breathe. Paraseptal emphysema usually affects the upper ...

Director David Lynch revealed that he needed a supply of oxygen and could only walk short distances after being diagnosed with emphysema months before his death. Emphysema is a chronic lung ...

Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2006;3(7):356-357. The cause of acute pancreatitis is easily identifiable in 70–90% of patients. In patients with idiopathic acute pancreatitis (IAP ...

You may experience symptoms such as cough, sleepiness, breathlessness, chest condition, and slow walking with emphysema or bronchitis. A spirometry test is one way to distinguish the type of lung ...

Emphysema happens when smoke from tobacco or other pollutants slowly damage the tiny air sacs in your lungs called alveoli. Normally, some 300 million alveoli help bring oxygen into your body and ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can result from chronic bronchitis or emphysema. Some people may also have COPD and asthma, which can worsen both conditions. Chronic obstructive ...

Their presence sometimes indicates an underlying gallbladder issue, such as chronic cholecystitis, which is gallbladder inflammation. This inflammation occurs when the gallbladder does not empty ...

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An MRCP uses MRI imaging with special software to help detect gallstones and bile duct stones and evaluate the gallbladder for presence of cholecystitis (inflammation). Cholecystingraphy: You receive ...

In three of the four cases the tobacco smoking load had been relatively small, suggesting a possible causal role for marijuana in the pathogenesis of this unusual pattern of bullous emphysema.