Chronic bronchitis and emphysema are terms that are no longer used and are now included within the COPD diagnosis.
Other findings include subconjunctival hemorrhage, enophthalmos, hypoesthesia of the cheek and upper gum, subcutaneous emphysema, or a palpable step-off of the orbital rim.
Nearly 20 percent of Americans smoke and tobacco use kills about 440, 000 people a year in the United States due to cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other ailments.
My mother was 79, a longtime smoker who was dying of emphysema.
The plaintiffs say they were hoodwinked into buying an addictive product and have since developed a range of smoking-related illnesses, including lung cancer and emphysema.
Smoking kills through lung cancer and coronary heart disease, causes chronic bronchitis and emphysema, leads to diseases of the arteries in the legs, and is associated with many other cancers
The Canadian Lung Association Web site explains that C.O.P.D. is the new name for emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
But he was soon coughing with TB and emphysema, and though he went to the sanatorium and she took healthy fruit to him, grapes and pears they could hardly afford, he was never well again.
But 10 years ago she was diagnosed with COPD, an incurable type of emphysema.
And in still another skit, a person who is struggling for breath because of a serious disease called emphysema begs the doctor to help him stop the smoking that contributed to his illness.
Nick and Mary Ann came out East when Nick inherited the shop from an uncle who had died of emphysema.
I smoke, I drink, I stay up all night... I was diagnosed as having emphysema in my mid-20s.
Long-term use of high doses of steroid medicines for conditions such as asthma or emphysema increases a person's risk of developing cataracts.1.
New drugs to treat asthma, emphysema or chronic bronchitis are needed.
And now my father has emphysema.
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