An airway disorder is a condition that affects your ability to breathe. The types of airway disorders seen in our outpatient clinic include disorders affecting the larynx (i.e., voice box), trachea (i ...

Medically reviewed by Susan Russell, MD Key Takeaways Obstructive lung diseases like COPD cause trouble when you're exhaling air.Restrictive lung diseases like pulmonary fibrosis make it harder to ...

Among current and former smokers, the presence of excessive airway collapse (in the trachea) during expiration is associated with worse respiratory quality of life, according to a study in the ...

Constrictive bronchiolitis obliterans is an important respiratory illness because of its underlying irreversible fibrotic process, and is defined as concentric fibrosis in the bronchiolar submucosal ...

A toddler who nearly died when a rare birthmark inside her throat started restricting her airway is now making an incredible recovery. When she was just five weeks old, Mia Rogers, now one, from St ...

CB is concentric submucosal fibrosis of the bronchiolar airway leading to narrowing and obliteration. Shortness of breath is the most common presenting symptom and early inspiratory crackles are heard ...