There’s no way around it: If you smoke, you’re more likely to develop many serious conditions, from cancer and lung disease to heart disease and diabetes. That’s why doctors say you’ll ...

In our series, six patients were diagnosed with chronic pleural fibrosis following percutaneous or thoracoscopic biopsy and TUS diagnosed all six ... assess for the presence of disease elsewhere (eg, ...

AACE released clinical guidelines on the diagnosis, management, and surveillance of tumors related to multiple endocrine ...

For more breathing techniques and information on living with COPD, asthma and other lung diseases, visit the American Lung Association's website at Lung.org. Learn how to use pursed lip breathing to ...

New codes and introductory language that became effective January 1, 2015 to describe percutaneous treatment of vertebral ... moderate sedation, and bone biopsy when performed. Each Category I code ...

34 Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease was not considered, since neither systematic radiological assessment nor lung biopsy were performed. Finally, the results are based on cross-sectional analyses; it ...

This can be done either through a scope that is fed down the patient's windpipe (bronchoscopy) or with a needle through the chest wall (percutaneous lung biopsy). Possible complications from these ...

1 Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China 2 Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China ...

Lung cancer presence was confirmed by histological analysis of lung biopsy or health record review; lung cancer absence was confirmed by CT surveillance (imaging follow-up) without significant nodule ...

Having lung cancer surgery is a life-altering event, and there is no way to minimize the emotions a person can go through when undergoing a procedure like this. The aim of surgery, however, is to not ...

Although RA attacks the joints, it can also affect other organs, including the lungs. As many as 10% to 30% of people with RA will eventually develop RA-related lung disease, often men their 50s and ...

But in the long-term, air pollution can cause cardiovascular diseases, stroke, lung cancer and other chronic diseases. Unfortunately, nearly half the U.S. population lives in areas with unhealthy ...