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Tracheomalacia

eMedicine — Overview: Tracheomalacia is an abnormal collapse of the tracheal walls. It may occur in an isolated lesion or can be found in combination with other lesions that cause compression or damage of the airway. Tracheomalacia is usually ... Professor ...More…
Right Middle Lobe Syndrome

eMedicine — Overview: Right middle lobe syndrome (RMLS) generally refers to atelectasis in the right middle lobe of the lung. It is caused by various etiologies and has no consistent clinical definition. Right middle lobe syndrome is characterized by ...More…
Respiratory Failure

eMedicine — Overview: Respiratory failure is a syndrome in which the respiratory system fails in one or both of its gas exchange functions: oxygenation and carbon dioxide elimination. In practice, respiratory failure is defined as a PaO2 value of ...More…
Pulmonary Eosinophilia

eMedicine — Overview: Pulmonary diseases associated with tissue and/or blood eosinophilia are a heterogeneous group of disorders. Various nosologies have been offered, but this article classifies these syndromes as extrinsic or intrinsic in origin. Some ...More…
Passive Smoking and Lung Disease

eMedicine — Overview: Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), or secondhand smoke, is increasingly recognized as the direct cause of lung disease in adults and children.1 ETS is responsible for significant mortality in adults, causing approximately 3000 deaths ...More…
Dermatologic Manifestations of Pulmonary Disease

eMedicine — Overview: The recognition and correct interpretation of cutaneous signs of diseases that primarily affect the bronchopulmonary system may aid the clinician in diagnosis and assessment of prognosis. This article reviews selected pulmonary diseases ...More…
Corticosteroid-Induced Myopathy

eMedicine — Overview: Steroid myopathy is usually an insidious disease process that causes weakness mainly to the proximal muscles of the upper and lower limbs and to the neck flexors. Cushing originally described it in 1932, and Muller and ... Steroid ...More…
Churg-Strauss Syndrome (Allergic Granulomatosis)

eMedicine — Overview: Allergic granulomatosis and angiitis is a systemic disorder characterized by asthma, transient pulmonary infiltrates, hypereosinophilia, and a systemic vasculitis. Churg and Strauss first described it in 1951, when they reviewed autopsy ...More…
Churg-Strauss Syndrome

eMedicine — Overview: Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS), or allergic granulomatous angiitis, is a rare syndrome that affects small- to medium-sized arteries and veins. Wegener granulomatosis (WG), Churg-Strauss syndrome, and the microscopic form of periarteritis ...More…
Churg-Strauss Disease

eMedicine — Overview: Churg-Strauss disease is one of the 3 important common leukocytoclastic (ie, fibrinoid, necrotizing, inflammatory) systemic small-vessel vasculitides associated with antineutrophil cytoplasm antibodies (ANCAs). Of these, it is the least ...More…
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Emphysema

eMedicine — Overview: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is estimated to affect 32 million persons in the United States and is the fourth leading cause of death in this country. Patients typically have symptoms of both chronic bronchitis and ...More…
Bronchitis, Acute and Chronic

eMedicine — Overview: Acute bronchitis is a clinical syndrome produced by inflammation of the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles. In children, acute bronchitis usually occurs in association with viral respiratory tract infection. Acute bronchitis is rarely a ...More…

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