PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | lung disease |
| Phenotype | C0013990|emphysema |
| Sentences | 2 |
| PubMedID- 23690680 | Pulmonary emphysema is a form of chronic obstructive lung disease characterized by lung hyperinflation, caused by destruction of structures feeding the alveoli, mainly as a result of long-term smoking and rarely due to alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency. |
| PubMedID- 21235741 | Exclusion criteria were: current malignancy, severe heart failure [10], severe renal failure (glomerular filtration rate (gfr) < 20 ml/min), chronic obstructive lung disease with emphysema, earlier gastric ulcer or intestinal surgery and known eating disorder. |
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