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Asthma - Asthma is manifested physiologically by a widespread narrowing of the air passages, which is relieved promptly by therapy. Most attacks are short lived and last from a few minutes to hours. It may be familial or acquired.
Tuberculosis - Tuberculosis is a specific infectious disease caused by the TB bacillus. The disease primarily affects the lungs. It can however cause disease in any organ of the body. The disease has a slow onset and is a chronic testing one if untreated.
Pneumonia - Pneumonia is defined as an acute inflammation of the lung tissue.
Lung Abscess - A lung abscess is a pus-filled cavity in the lung surrounded by inflamed tissue and caused by an infection.
Acute Bronchitis - Acute Bronchitis is defined as an inflammation of the bronchioles especially seen in infants and children.
Pleural Effusion - Pleural effusion itself is not a disease as much as a result of many different diseases. If blood is in the accumulating fluid, the condition is called "hemothorax"; if pus is present, it is called "empyema"; if air enters the space, it is called "pneumothorax"; and if there is chyle (milky fluid consisting of lymph and fat), it is called "chylothorax."
Pneumothorax - A pneumothorax is defined as free air (pneumo) trapped within the chest cavity (thorax) - but not within the lungs themselves.
Chronic Bronchitis - Chronic bronchitis is an inflammation of the airways in the lungs. Most cases of acute bronchitis disappear within a few days without lasting effects, although coughs may linger three weeks or more.
Emphysema - Emphysema condition is defined as the distention of the air spaces distal to the terminal bronchioles withdestruction of alveolar septa within the lungs.
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