Lung disease is any disease or disorder where lung function does not work properly. There are three main types of lung disease:

1. Obstructive lung disease -- a decrease in the exhaled air flow caused by a narrowing or blockage of the airways, which can occur with asthma, emphysema, and bronchitis.

2. Restrictive lung disease -- a decrease in the total volume of air that the lungs are able to hold. Often, this is due to a decrease in the elasticity of the lungs themselves or caused by a problem related to the expansion of the chest wall during inhalation.

3. A defect in the ability of the lung's air sac tissue to move oxygen into a person's blood.

Most lung diseases actually involve a combination of these categories, such as emphysema, which involves both airflow obstruction and oxygenation problems.

Major lung diseases include:

• Asthma

• Drugs Used in Asthma

• Acute/Chronic Bronchitis

• COPD

• Emphysema

• Interstitial Lung Disease

• Pulmonary fibrosis

• Pneumonia

• Sarcoidosis

Other lung and misc. diseases include:

• Asbestosis

• Ascites

• ARDS

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• Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

• Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency

• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

• Aspergilloma

• Aspergillosis

• Aspergillosis - acute invasive

• Atelectasis

• Bronchiectasis

• Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia

• Pulmonary Problems in the Burn Patient

• Cardiac Asthma

• Chemo Lung Injury

• Churg-Strauss Syndrome

• Cor Pulmonale

• CABG

• Cough-Variant Asthma

• Cystic Fibrosis

• Deep Vein Thrombosis

• Diabetic Ketoacidosis

• Diaphragm Disorders

• Eosinophilic pneumonia

• Guillan-Barre

• Guillian Barre Syndrome

• Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome

• Lung Cancer

• Multiple Sclerosis

• Myasthenia Gravis

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• Myocardial Infarction

• Necrotizing pneumonia

• Pleural effusion

• Pleural Effusions

• Pneumoconiosis

• Pneumocystosis

• Pneumonia

• Lower Resp Tract Pneumonia

• Pneumonia in immunodeficient patient

• Pneumothorax

• Post-polio syndrome

• Primary ciliary dyskinesia

 

• Pulmonary anthrax

• Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH)

• Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation

• Pulmonary Edema

• Pulmonary Edema

• Pulmonary Embolism

• Pulmonary Embolism & PAH

• Pulmonary Hypertension

• Pulmonary Nocardiosis

• RSV

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• Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

• Rheumatoid lung disease

• SARS

• SARS

• Sleep Apnea

• Sleep apnea

• Tension Pneumothorax

• Tuberculosis

• Upper Respiratory Tract Infection

• Ventilator-induced Cachexia

• Ventilator Associated Pneumonia