Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is known for causing breathing difficulties and limiting everyday activities.

As part of a comprehensive lung exam, a doctor may try to listen for various sounds by tapping your back and chest with their hand, which is a test called percussion. If the percussion produces a drum ...

It's not always easy to get a diagnosis of alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency, a rare condition that sometimes leads to serious lung and liver damage. In fact, most people who have this disorder are ...

Who helps you manage your COPD? It’s more than just one doctor. It’s a medical care team. What Kind of Doctors Treat COPD? Your COPD care team includes providers who prescribe medicine, guide therapy ...

The extensive range of diagnostic capabilities and the compact dimensions of ultrasound systems have made lung ultrasonography an indispensable tool for diagnostic imaging. Lung ultrasonography ...

“Emphysema is usually a description of images — CT scan or X-ray — and is only one part of the disease of COPD,” says Uddalak Majumdar, MD, pulmonologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. COPD is ...