a chronic lung condition caused by damage to tiny air sacs in the lungs called alveoli. Healthy lungs are made up up of millions alveoli with elastic walls that take oxygen into the body and expel ...

LEGENDARY director David Lynch passed away at the age of 78, after revealing he’d suffered from a terrifying lung disease that left him barely able to “walk across a room”. The ...

Emphysema causes damage to the lungs’ air sacs, called alveoli. A person usually has about 300 million alveoli in the lungs. With emphysema, damage destroys the walls of the alveoli and causes ...

David Lynch revealed months before his death that he'd been diagnosed with emphysema after smoking for decades. He died in January 2025. No cause was confirmed.

In the months leading up to his death, Lynch opened up about the condition, which results from damage to the walls of the alveoli in your lungs. A blockage develops, which traps air inside your lungs.

Carbon dioxide diffuses from the blood into the alveoli. These three features are particularly important to our lungs for efficient gas exchange. Most of them also apply to other exchange surfaces ...

oxygen diffuses into it and carbon dioxide diffuses out of it Some water vapour is also lost from the surface of the alveoli into the lungs - we can see this condensing when we breathe out on cold ...

Now, in a recent Science Immunology study, Marichal and his colleagues confirmed that these unusual cells that emerged following an IAV infection are macrophages, and that they facilitate the repair ...