Spirometry is used to diagnose asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other conditions that affect breathing. Spirometry may also be used periodically to monitor your lung condition and check whether a treatment for a chronic lung condition is helping you breathe better.

When a person with TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs, speaks, or sings, TB bacteria can get into the air. People nearby may breathe in these bacteria and become infected. TB is NOT spread by shaking someone’s hand sharing food or drink touching bed linens or toilet seats sharing toothbrushes kissing

ICD-10-CM 2017 had a limited number of pulmonary hypertension codes: one for primary pulmonary hypertension and another for secondary pulmonary hypertension. ICD-10-CM 2018 expands the code selection for “other secondary pulmonary hypertension” to include the Group I through Group V classifications (see Hypertension Groupings section).

Pulmonary means ‘lungs’ and stenosis means ‘narrowing’, therefore pulmonary stenosis describes a condition where the pulmonary valve is very narrow. When this condition is present the muscle of the right ventricle must work harder to pump the blood through the narrow valve.

COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is a progressive disease, which means it gets worse over time. With COPD, less air flows in and out of the airways, making it hard to breathe. Learn who is at risk for COPD, what symptoms to watch for, and how the disease affects the lungs. In the United States, COPD affects more than 15 million.

The pulmonary valve is one of four valves that control blood flow in the heart. It's between the lower right heart chamber (right ventricle) and the artery that delivers blood to the lungs (pulmonary artery). A diseased or damaged pulmonary valve can interrupt blood flow from the heart to the lungs.

Pulmonary edema is a broad descriptive term and is usually defined as an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the extravascular compartments of the lung 1. Clinical presentation. The clinical presentation of pulmonary edema includes: acute breathlessness. orthopnea. paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea (PND) foaming at the mouth. distress. Pathology.