As part of a comprehensive lung exam, a doctor may try to listen for various sounds by tapping your back and chest with their hand, which is a test called percussion. If the percussion produces a drum ...

Who helps you manage your COPD? It’s more than just one doctor. It’s a medical care team. What Kind of Doctors Treat COPD? Your COPD care team includes providers who prescribe medicine, guide therapy ...

If your doctor needs to figure out why you're having trouble breathing or to check for other lung problems, they may suggest lung diffusion testing. It measures how well your lungs are working. Lung ...

COPD may originate from chronic bronchitis, which inflames the airways, or from emphysema, which damages the lung air sacs. Key indicators of COPD may include persistent breathing changes such as ...

“Emphysema is usually a description of images — CT scan or X-ray — and is only one part of the disease of COPD,” says Uddalak Majumdar, MD, pulmonologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. COPD is ...

COPD inhaled triple therapy (BDP/FF/G) improved symptoms, lung function, adherence, and QOL in patients previously treated with inhaled dual therapy.