pulmonary disease
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- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a leading cause of morbidity worldwide.
- Underdiagnosis of COPD is a relevant issue, and most frequently involves patients at early stages of the disease.
- Airway inflammation plays a major role in the progression of chronic lung diseases.
- Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a syndrome characterized by the accumulation of alveolar surfactant and dysfunction of alveolar macrophages.
- Bronchial asthma is the most common chronic childhood illness.
- Chronic airflow limitation is the common denominator of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
- Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is the most common pulmonary manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
- Pulmonary histoplasmosis is caused by infection with Histoplasma capsulatum, resulting in a variety of clinical manifestations.
- Fatigue is a frequently occurring symptom in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by chronically poor airflow that worsens over time and leads to exacerbations.
- Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) pulmonary disease (PD) is often difficult and complicated to diagnose or to discriminate from follicular bronchitis, bronchiectasis, or other conditions associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) lung in the clinical setting.
- Everolimus-related interstitial lung disease (ILD) (also: pneumonitis) poses a difficulty for physicians, as it is hard to discriminate ILD from other causes of respiratory symptoms and to decide on safe treatment continuation.