This is especially the case for people with cystic fibrosis, due to the bacterial colonisation commonly found within such patients' lungs if only one lung were transplanted, bacteria in the native lung could potentially infect the newly transplanted organ.

There is also irregular fibrosis of the blood vessels due to chronic vasculitis, leading to sometimes massive intimal fibrosis (fibrosis of the inner section of the blood vessels).

Lung volumes are directly measured Lung capacities are inferred from lung volumes.

About 20 of cases of cystic fibrosis present with meconium ileus, while approximately 20 of one series of cases of meconium ileus did not have cystic fibrosis.

Consider lung cancer.

Parasites can either invade the lung, live in the lung as part of their life cycle, or be spread to the lung by the bloodstream.

Lung volume reduction surgery involves removing the parts of the lung most damaged by emphysema allowing the remaining, relatively good lung to expand and work better.

Nebulizers are commonly used for the treatment of cystic fibrosis, asthma, COPD and other respiratory diseases.

When the surgeons are satisfied with the performance of the new lung, surgery on the second lung will proceed.

And the cancer, the body is saying the lung tissue is damaged, we need to repair the lung. And cancer is originating in the lung trying to repair because you have this excessive proliferation of these remarkable cells that really have the potential to become lung tissue.

My father died of lung cancer.

Surgery For those with very severe disease surgery is sometimes helpful and may include lung transplantation or lung volume reduction surgery.

That he was dying of lung disease?

Early detection of lung cancer is valuable.

A single lung transplant takes about four to eight hours, while a double lung transplant takes about six to twelve hours to complete.

Smoking is the major cause of lung cancer.

Charity Tillemann Dick Singing after a double lung transplant

(In fact, lung cancer kills one in ten smokers.)

Squamous cell carcinoma accounts for about 30 of lung cancers.

Highest concentrations were found in liver, lung tissue, and stool.

She died of lung cancer at the age of 44.

Gordon died in prison of lung cancer the next year.

In 10 to 20 of double lung transplants the patient is hooked up to a heart lung machine which pumps blood for the body and supplies fresh oxygen.

There are a number of blood tests available that try to determine the degree of hepatic fibrosis and alleviate the need for biopsy.

BD Novocure's also working on lung cancer as the second target.

Indeed, nowadays, many lung cancer patients have no history of smoking.

My father was diagnosed with lung and bone cancer in 2001.

At the age of 15, Harmaja contracted the lung disease tuberculosis.

The new lung is then placed and the blood vessels reattached.

Berylliosis, or chronic beryllium disease (CBD), is a chronic allergic type lung response and chronic lung disease caused by exposure to beryllium and its compounds, a form of beryllium poisoning.

Viral Viruses may reach the lung by a number of different routes.

In contrast, deaths due to lung cancer have declined significantly among men.

He had become ill shortly after a close friend died of lung cancer.

Nutan died in February 1991, of lung cancer, at the age of 54.

Chronic exposure to sodium selenate can cause severe lung, kidney, and liver damage.

An example is cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease it is rare in most parts of Asia but relatively common in Europe and in populations of European descent.

But just a few months ago, Judy was diagnosed with stage three lung cancer.

Early treatment with corticosteroids seems to prevent or ameliorates a decline in lung function.

When the immune system responds to the infection, even more lung damage may occur.

Those with many exacerbations have a faster rate of deterioration of their lung function.

Lung cancer takes more victims than breast cancer, prostate cancer and colon cancer together.

This was replaced by the current system, in which prospective lung recipients of age of 12 and older are assigned a lung allocation score or LAS, which takes into account various measures of the patient's health.

On November 9, 2008, it was announced that Haggard had been diagnosed with non small cell lung cancer in May of that year and underwent surgery on November 3, during which part of his lung was removed.

Why so? Because, in fact, the area of the lung is something very ill defined.

He said, Your shoulder's going to be fine, but Dave, there's something in your lung.