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Pectus excavatum causes the breastbone to sink into the chest. This can affect heart and lung function. Surgery helps correct the deformity.
Pneumonia is an infection of the air sacs in the lungs. Pleurisy is swelling and irritation of the tissues that surround the lung. Symptoms include: Chest pain, ...
But fluid can collect in the lungs for other reasons. These include pneumonia, contact with certain toxins, medications, trauma to the chest wall, and traveling ...
Some people who undergo radiation therapy to the chest, such as for breast or lung cancer, may develop pneumonitis. Pneumonitis also can occur after whole ...
Most lung nodules are scar tissue from past lung infections. Lung nodules usually don't cause symptoms. They're often found by accident on a chest X-ray or CT ...
Chest X-ray. Images of the chest may show the scar tissue that is usually part of pulmonary fibrosis. · Computerized tomography (CT) scan. A CT scan combines X- ...
Pulmonary edema — excess fluid in the lungs. ... Kyphoscoliosis (a chest wall deformity) ... Low-phosphorus diet: Helpful for kidney disease? Lung cancer ...
Pneumothorax. This is when air leaks into the space between your lungs and chest wall, causing some or all of a lung to collapse. Scarring of lung tissue ...
Chest tightness; A chronic cough that may produce ... COPD may cause high blood pressure in the arteries that bring blood to your lungs (pulmonary hypertension).
... lungs and chest cavity (pleura). If the fluid becomes infected, you may need to have it drained through a chest tube or removed with surgery. Lung abscess.
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