Candida is a type of yeast that sometimes causes fungal infections in humans. Healthy people typically have low levels of Candida living in their bodies, and the fungi only starts growing out of control when a person's immune system becomes...
Interstitial lung disease refers to a group of progressive lung disorders that cause tissue scarring on the lungs. The disease makes it increasingly difficult to breathe and so prevents sufficient oxygen from entering your bloodstream. In most...
Interstitial lung diseases are a group of more than 200 separate lung diseases, according to Talmadge King, Jr., M.D., Chief of the Department of Medicine at the University of California in "Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine." Physicians...
Oxygen enters the body through the nose during inhalation. From there it travels to lungs and into the lung capillaries where it gets picked up by red blood cells and enters into the bloodstream. Anything that disrupts any part of this sequence...
Cystic lung disease encompasses a group of acquired and congenital disorders with distinct features but plenty of overlap among the disease characteristics. The term "cystic" refers to small lesions in the lung containing air or fluid, called...
Sarcoidosis, vasculitis and diffuse lung diseases all lead to inflammation. Sarcoidosis involves inflammatory cells that gather in the body. Vasculitis occurs when the blood vessels become inflamed, and diffuse lung disease leads to inflamed lung...
There are numerous effects of lung disease. According to MedlinePlus, the website of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health or NIH, lung disease is any disease or condition that affects a person's lungs or...
