The human body can survive three weeks without food, three days without water and three minutes without oxygen, making oxygen a most essential substance ...
Even for experts, diagnosing pulmonary fibrosis is a challenge because there are many other interstitial lung diseases that mimic it. Particularly for Idiopathic Pulmonary ...
Pulmonary fibrosis and COPD are two different forms of lung disease that affect the body in similar ways. With pulmonary fibrosis (PF), progressive scarring ...
When you’re diagnosed with a lung disease, you expect traditional respiratory symptoms. Shortness of breath and shallow breathing, wheezing, a dry cough, chest tightness—these ...
Shortness of breath, fatigue, aching muscles, tightness in your chest—those are scary symptoms for anyone to be dealing with. But your first visit to ...
Pulmonary fibrosis is a serious condition that is estimated to affect roughly five million people throughout the world. Several different factors can lead to ...
The lives of patients and pulmonologists would be easier if idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis followed a specific timeline. Unfortunately, this type of interstitial lung disease ...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) produces a wide range of unpredictable symptoms, including fatigue, shortness of breath and achy joints and muscles. For many IPF ...