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The effect of cystic fibrosis on many organs and the frequent lung infections means that it is mostly diagnosed in childhood. Somehow, for Verônica Stasiak Bednarczuk, that diagnosis did not arrive ...

The etiology of his pain was unclear, with vague symptoms that typically worsened when he was hospitalized. During this time, his pulmonary status had also slowly deteriorated due to chronic ...

The World Lupus Federation (WLF), co-founded in 2015 by the Lupus Foundation of America and Lupus Europe, is celebrating a decade of remarkable achievements in the fight against lupus. As the only ...

Patients' end-of-life decisions challenge nurses to improve ... Medical and psychological symptoms and spiritual distress often trigger thoughts of hastening death even when pain and symptoms ...

This scarring damages the epithelial cells that line the alveoli, or the tiny sacs responsible for gas exchange in the lungs, leading to lung function decline and symptoms that ... resolving forms of ...

COPD is a progressive lung disease with mild symptoms in the early ... also sometimes referred to as end stage COPD. For many people at this stage, quality of life is usually fairly low, and ...

Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder that changes a vital protein in the body, causing a buildup of thick and sticky mucus, ...

Background: Pulmonary fibrosis is one of the sequelae of the COVID-19, which seriously affects the quality of life of survivors ... Kingdom showed that 36.5% of patients recorded one or more symptoms ...

Common symptoms include ... can be confirmed with a pulmonary function test called spirometry. Laboratory and imaging tests may also be ordered to rule out alternative diagnoses like heart failure or ...