Respiratory diseases, or lung diseases, are pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange difficult in air-breathing animals. They include conditions of the respiratory tract including the trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, pleurae, pleural cavity, the nerves and muscles of respiration. Respiratory diseases range from mild and self-limiting, such as the common cold, influenza, and pharyngitis to life-threatening diseases such as bacterial pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, tuberculosis, acute asthma, lung cancer,[2] and severe acute respiratory syndromes, such as COVID-19.[rx] Respiratory diseases can be classified in many different ways, including by the organ or tissue involved, by the type and pattern of associated signs and symptoms, or by the cause of the disease.
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- Acute eosinophilic pneumonia
- Air bronchogram
- Alcoholic lung disease
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Alveolar capillary dysplasia
- Alveolar lung disease
- Antisynthetase syndrome
- Asbestosis
- Aspergilloma
- Atelectotrauma
- Atypical pulmonary carcinoid tumour
B
- Baritosis
- Biotrauma
- Brown induration
C
- Chalicosis
- Childhood interstitial lung disease
- Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis
- Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema
- Cystic fibrosis
D
- Diffuse idiopathic pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia
E
- End stage pulmonary disease
- Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
F
- Flock worker’s lung
- Focal lung pneumatosis
G
- Ghon’s complex
- Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Granulomatous–lymphocytic interstitial lung disease
- Growth delay-hydrocephaly-lung hypoplasia syndrome
H
- Hepatization of lungs
- High-altitude pulmonary edema
- Honeycombing
I
- Idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis
- Immersion pulmonary oedema
- Interstitial lung disease
L
- Averill A. Liebow
- Litten’s sign (lung)
- Lung abscess
- Lung disease
- Lung overexpansion injury
- Lycoperdonosis
- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
M
- Mechanical power (medicine)
N
- Negative-pressure pulmonary edema
O
- Obstructive lung disease
- Occupational lung disease
P
- Pneumonia alba
- Progressive massive fibrosis
- Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
- Pulmonary aspiration
- Pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis
- Pulmonary contusion
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Pulmonary hematoma
- Pulmonary hemorrhage
- Pulmonary hyperplasia
- Pulmonary laceration
- Pulmonary oxygen toxicity
- Pulmonary toxicity
- Pulmonary venoocclusive disease
- Pulmonary-renal syndrome
R
- Respiratory bronchiolitis
- Restrictive lung disease
- Rheotrauma
- Rheumatoid lung disease
S
- Sarcoidosis
- Subpulmonic effusion
- Surfactant metabolism dysfunction
- Swimming-induced pulmonary edema
- Swyer–James syndrome
T
- Transfusion-related acute lung injury
- Tumor-like disorders of the lung pleura
V
- Ventilation–perfusion mismatch
- Ventilator-associated lung injury
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Respiratory physiology
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| Lung volumes |
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| Circulation |
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| Insufficiency |
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