Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine

Pulmonary Diseases and therapeutics

A type of disease that affects the lungs and other parts of the respiratory system. Pulmonary diseases may be caused by infection, by smoking tobacco, or by breathing in secondhand tobacco smoke, radon, asbestos, or other forms of air pollution. Pulmonary diseases include asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary fibrosis, pneumonia, and lung cancer. Also called lung disorder and respiratory disease.

Pulmonary diseases are pathological conditions affecting organs and tissues that impede gas exchange in air-breathing animals. These include conditions of the airways, including the trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, pleura, pleural space, nerves, and respiratory muscles. Pulmonary diseases range from lung and self-limiting, such as the common cold, flu, and pharyngitis, to life-threatening diseases such as bacterial pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, tuberculosis, acute asthma, lung cancer, and severe acute respiratory syndromes such as COVID. -19. Respiratory diseases can be classified in various ways, including by the organ or tissue affected, by the type and structure of associated signs and symptoms, or by the cause of the disease.