There are a lot of lung diseases out there, since our surrounding can be the cause of one of lung

disease,
such as smoke, radon, etc. These are things that we meet daily and almost in everyplace, however, lung
disease cause can be come from our own family (genetic), that we cannot avoid it. Some of lung disease
are really hard to detect its symptoms since, their symptoms more likely shows when these lung disease
already in advance stage. All of this can occur since our lung has 'overbuilt' characteristic, its mean our
lung can extent more and have a tremendous reserve volume as compared to the oxygen exchange
requirements when at rest.

This is the reason that people can smoke for years without having a noticeable decrease in lung
function, and noticeable lung disease. Lung cancer is one of lung disease that kills many people due to
its symptoms that shows when it’s too late.

Diseases of the human lung belong to respiratory diseases. The following is a list of important medical
conditions involving the lung. Many of these are caused or worsened by smoking. Lung disorders are
generally handled by general practitioners, although patients may be referred to a pulmonologist.

Lung cancer
Lung cancer is the major problem in the world, anyone can get lung cancer. Breast cancer may
make women thrilling, yet prostate cancer may scare men, even though lung cancer patient not
as much as other, but it has caused death more than any cancer.

For years, lung cancer patient keep increasing. For few decades before, majority of lung cancer
patient are men, but nowadays lung cancer has increased among women even more than in
men. It’s all due to past few decades women start smoking and many various habits just like
men do. (read more…)

Emphysema
Emphysema is a chronic respiratory that caused an enlargement of the air spaces in the lung,
causing a decrease in lung function, and often, breathlessness.

Those who had emphysema, their lung need to support the physical shape and function of the
lung are destroyed. It is included in a group of diseases called chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease or COPD (pulmonary refers to the lungs). Emphysema is called an obstructive lung
disease because the destruction of lung tissue around smaller airways, called alveoli, makes
these airways unable. (read more…)

Asthma
Asthma is a lung disease that one of the most common chronic disease worldwide. Asthma
patient keep increasing each year and mostly among children. During WHO, asthma costs more
than HIV and tuberculosis combined.*

Asthma has caused 4,000 death in USA each year, and there are 300 million people diagnosed
with asthma worldwide. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways in which
many cells and cellular elements play a role. (read more…)

Cystic fibrosis
hereditary disease which causes the lung to produce abnormally viscous mucus.
 A pulmonary embolism
occurs when a blood clot obstructs an artery leading to the lung.

Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis or TB (short for Tubercles Bacillus) is a common and often deadly infectious disease
caused by mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis in humans. Tuberculosis usually
attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread through the air, when
people who have the disease cough, sneeze, or spit. Most infections in humans result in an
asymptomatic, latent infection, and about one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to
active disease, which, if left untreated, kills more than 50% of its victims. (read more…)

Pneumonia
Pneumonia is a common illness among lung disease that occurs in all age. Pneumonia is a
leading cause of death among the elderly and people who are chronically and terminally ill.
Additionally, it is the leading cause of death in children under five years old worldwide.
Pneumonia has caused death to more than 50,000 American each year. (read more…)

Pneumoconiosis
an occupational lung disease caused by the inhalation of dust.

Bronchitis
Bronchitis is one of common lung disease and one of most common lung disease that occur in
upper respiratory tract infection. There are two kind of bronchitis, acute and chronic, each of
which has unique etiologies, pathologies, and therapies. (read more…)

A collapsed lung (pneumothorax) can occur when one or both walls of the pleural cavity are
penetrated by injury, allowing air to enter.

In pulmonary edema fluid from the capillaries enters the alveoli. This can be caused by
weakness of the left side of the heart (resulting in a blood holdup in the lung), altitude sickness,
or rarely inhaling toxic gases.

Lung pinprick condition is a hereditary disease which results in decreased lung capacity and
occasional shortness of breath.

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