Diseases of the lungs, bronchi and pleura (pulmonology)

This category covers pulmonary disease bronchial and pleural with symptoms, causes, diagnostics, treatment options, and prevention basics.

Pleurisy in Asthma: Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Chest Pain

Pleurisy, or pleuritic inflammation, is an inflammation of the pleura: the thin membrane that covers the lungs and lines the inside of the chest. The main symptom of pleurisy is a sharp, stabbing, or cutting pain in the chest, which intensifies with deep breathing, coughing, sneezing, laughing, or movement.

Pneumonia after a stroke: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention

Post-stroke pneumonia is an infectious or aspiration-infectious inflammation of the lungs that develops against the background of acute cerebrovascular accident.

Asthma in pneumonia: symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, risks of exacerbation, and prevention of complications

Asthma associated with pneumonia is a condition in which a person with bronchial asthma develops an infectious inflammation of the lung tissue. In asthma, the main problem usually lies in the bronchi: they become inflamed, narrow, react to irritants, and may produce more mucus.

Vomiting with pneumonia: causes, danger signs, diagnosis and treatment in children and adults

Vomiting is possible with pneumonia, but it is not one of the most typical signs of pneumonia.

Vomiting during acute respiratory viral infection: causes, danger signs, diagnosis and treatment

Acute respiratory viral infection most often manifests itself as a runny nose, nasal congestion, cough, sneezing, sore throat, headache, body aches and fever.

Drug-induced cough: causes, diagnosis, treatment, and medication substitutions

Drug-induced cough is a cough that is triggered, aggravated, or maintained by medication. It may be the only symptom or may be accompanied by shortness of breath, wheezing, runny nose, hoarseness, sore throat, fever, or chest X-ray abnormalities.

Cough in chronic bronchitis: causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of exacerbations

A cough associated with chronic bronchitis is usually a prolonged productive cough, that is, a cough with sputum, which is associated with chronic inflammation of the bronchi and increased mucus production.

Eosinophilic bronchitis: symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic cough

Eosinophilic bronchitis is an inflammatory disease of the respiratory tract, in which the main symptom is a chronic cough, and an increased number of eosinophils are found in the sputum or bronchial mucosa.

Chronic cough with phlegm: causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis

Chronic cough with sputum is a cough that lasts more than 8 weeks in an adult and is accompanied by regular secretion of mucus from the respiratory tract.

Chronic Cough: Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis

Chronic cough in adults is usually defined as a cough that lasts more than 8 weeks.

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