Thema: COPD

Scientists have discovered that people with COPD have lung cells that contain over three times as much soot-like carbon as those of smokers without the disease. These overloaded cells are larger and trigger more inflammation, suggesting that pollution and carbon buildup not just smoking may drive the disease.

Fliegen mit einer Lungenerkrankung: vor einer Flugreise sollten Patienten beim Hausarzt oder Internisten eine Flugfreigabe einholen. Weltweit sind von den etwa 3,3 Milliarden Flugpassagieren viele chronisch erkrankt. Deshalb empfehlen Fachleute, dass diese Patienten beispielsweise mit einer Lungenerkrankung vor dem Fliegen eine ärztliche Flugtauglichkeitsbescheinigung von ihrem Hausarzt, einem Internisten oder einem Lungenfacharzt einholen sollten.   Gesundheitliche […]

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Researchers have developed a novel rat model that closely replicates the pathological features and physiological changes associated with human chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-associated cor pulmonale. This model exhibits key characteristics, including chronic lung inflammation, pulmonary hypertension, and right ventricular hypertrophy. The new study details the potential for the model to unravel the complex interactions between lung and heart pathology and improve patient outcomes.

Using a four-dimensional microscopy technique, researchers have created 3D video images of mouse lung tissue grown in the laboratory. What they have learned has been nothing short of groundbreaking.

Der Pollenflug ist in vollem Gange. Um die Heuschnupfen-Symptome für Allergiker so erträglich wie möglich zu gestalten, helfen einige Tipps. Welche das sind, verrät Allergologe Christoph Bergmann.Von FOCUS-online-Autorin Laura Stunz

A new method of scanning lungs is able to show in real time how air moves in and out of the lungs as people take a breath in patients with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and patients who have received a lung transplant. It enables experts to see the functioning of transplanted lungs and could enable medics to identify sooner any decline in lung function.

A recent trial finds an injection given during some asthma and COPD attacks is more effective than the current treatment of steroid tablets, reducing the need for further treatment by 30%.