What are lung infiltrates?
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Lung infiltrates is a term that is used to describe the appearance of any abnormal substance that has accumulated in the lungs.  Lungs usually appear very dark on an xray because they contain mostly air which allows the xrays through very easily.  If the lungs start accumulating fluid or pus, for example, fewer of the xrays will make it through to the film and those areas appear whiter.  The white areas are called infiltrates.  Infiltrates can represent many things including pneumonia and other infections, tuberculosis, pulmonary edema, and hemorrhage, just to name a few.
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It means behind the heart.  Usually referred to something seen on a chest xray, often a pneumonia or other lung infiltrate that is behind the heart.
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since theyre mammals, the get lung infections like every other animal that breathes air
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Pneumono ultramicroscopic silicovolcano coniosis\n\nit doesn't have to do with volcanos its a lung disease sweetie.
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The Lungs are made up of millions of tiny air sacs called alveoli. These alveoli are like the millions of little holes in a sponge.\n\nJust out of curiosity, did you feel them in a dissection or something?
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pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis\n\n- pretty sure it's a lung disease caused by volcanic ash. Believe it or not, I spelled this in 3rd grade :). My teacher was looking for the longest word in English to give me and I got it right! Still proud of that one ;) \n\nEDIT: it isn't appearing in full on here for some reason.
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Go to this website http://www.lab.anhb.uwa.edu.au/mb140/CorePages/Respiratory/respir.htm
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to protect your lungs. sound a little bizarrie doesnt it
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pulmonary fibrosis is the gradual scarring of lung tissue.  there are several theories as to what causes the injury from genetic to autoimmune to enviromental factors. Air sacs become slowly replaced by scar tissue eventually affecting air exchange. Research in this area is limited. Pt have different stages of progession of disease
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Your Q. is so general, you should be more specific. What do you mean by Lung inflammation? do you mean pneumonia or bronchitis? or do you mean T.B?
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Lung tissue looks like a sponge.  Heart tissue looks like a steak.  Do an image search.
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You can visit the following web site that explains everything about C.O.P.D.  It is a seriouse lung disease.\n\nhttp://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=35020\n\nMy uncle has this disease and had one lung removed because of it and has to sleep with a breathing machine every night.\n\nGood Luck :-)
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We have tiny little air sacs that make up our lung tissue. They're called "alveoli" (each one is an "alveolus"). In order to work properly, they need to maintain elasticity. It's also important that the walls of the sacs maintain their structural integrity. Cigarette smoke, air pollution, and some genetic conditions will cause the walls of the alveoli to harden or to lose their elasticity and for the individual sacs to collapse. If that happens, the surface area where oxygen can enter the bloodstream through the alveoli decreases. \n\nThis isn't a perfect analogy, but think about it this way: if you're trying to blow up a balloon, but you pinch the opening too tightly, you won't be able to get air into the balloon (your bloodstream). What you're doing there is decreasing the "surface area" of the hole. At a certain point, you won't be able to get any air in the balloon at all - or at least not enough to beat the resistance of the tension of the inner walls of the balloon. \n\nWith emphysema, as the disease progresses the person can't get enough oxygen through the walls of the alveoli and into the bloodstream to sustain life, and eventually asphyxiates. Even with increasingly pure doses of inhaled oxygen, the lungs lose their capacity to oxygenate the blood.\n\nAlthough emphysema isn't curable, lung transplantation offers some hope. Also, its progress can often be arrested by quitting smoking, reducing pollutants in one's environment, and by use of some steroids (some of which have very severe side-effects, though).
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Ground glass opacities can indicate many things including infection, pulmonary edema, hemmorhage, many of the interstitial lung diseases, and alveolar proteinosis.
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Pneumono ultra microscopic silico volcano coniosis -- a type of pneumonia caused by the inflammation of the lungs due to inhalation of volcano ash.\n\nI broke it all up so it wouldn't turn into ellipses. That's all one word.
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May be your pleural covering of your lung on the right side is affected mildly.
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Pulmonary fibrosis is a thickening of lung tissue.  Think scar tissue formation in the lungs.  Idiopathic is a term that means the doctor cannot pinpoint the cause of the fibrosis.  It can happen secondary to smoking or breathing other things that can cause damage (particulate matter-asbestos, dust, etc.).  You can also get fibrosis in the lungs when you inhale caustic substances like acid or ammonia gas.