Pulmonary emphysema: symptoms, diagnosis and treatment

Smoking and pollution are the most common causes of pulmonary emphysema, a condition that can damage respiratory function.

Pulmonary emphysema is a disease that affects lung tissue, causing progressive dilation and destruction of the pulmonary alveoli, or the small cavities at the ends of the bronchioles responsible for gas exchange: oxygen and carbon dioxide.

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