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Chest pain. You may feel like you're having a heart attack. The pain is often sharp and felt when you breathe in deeply. The pain can stop you ...
Pectus excavatum causes the breastbone to sink into the chest. This can affect heart and lung function. Surgery helps correct the deformity.
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. Injury, lung ...
... lungs. Cancer treatments. Having radiation treatments to your chest or using certain chemotherapy medicines can raise your risk of pulmonary fibrosis.
Chest pressure or pain. Dizziness or fainting spells. Fast pulse or pounding heartbeat. Fatigue. Swelling in the ankles, legs and belly area. Shortness ...
In this condition, the tissues that line the lungs and chest cavity (pleura) become inflamed, causing sharp chest pain that worsens during breathing.
... lungs can hold and how quickly you can get air out of your lungs. This test checks for signs of asthma or emphysema. More Information. Chest X-rays. Treatment.
... lung disease. Tests that can help diagnose pulmonary edema or determine the reason for fluid in the lungs include: Chest X-ray. A chest X-ray can confirm ...
A chest X-ray creates pictures of the heart, lungs and chest. It may be used to check for other lung conditions that can cause 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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