Depending on the effects of COPD on your lungs, you may develop one of the two main types of COPD: emphysema or chronic bronchitis. Emphysema is a disease of the alveoli. It damages the fibers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 August 2024 interview with Sight and Sound magazine, ...

For decades, David didn’t quit smoking until he was diagnosed with emphysema in 2020. Emphysema is a chronic lung illness and is a form of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Lynch revealed in an August 2024 interview that he had been diagnosed with emphysema, resulting from a heavy smoking habit. The condition was so severe that Lynch told Sight & Sound magazine that ...

In August 2024, Lynch revealed that he had been diagnosed with emphysema in 2020 after decades of smoking. He told Sight and Sound at the time that he was housebound and would likely be unable to ...

Axial unenhanced thin-slice chest HRCT scans (C and D, respectively) in a 45-year-old male cannabis smoker, showing left pneumothorax (arrows in C) with marked bilateral apical subcutaneous emphysema ...