Here, we report a case of a 69-year-old man who developed intercostal lung herniation, possibly due to excessive cough reflex in the course of infectious chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ...

Lung herniation is defined as a protrusion of the lung parenchyma with its pleura through the intercostal space. It is a rare condition and usually occurs after thoracic trauma and surgical ...

The University of Delaware’s Jason Gleghorn has received a $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate pressure in lung development and congenital diaphragmatic hernia ...

Experimental and clinical data suggest that fetal endoscopic tracheal occlusion to induce lung growth may improve the outcome of severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia. We performed a randomized ...

Disk herniation can cause tingling and numbness ... To determine if back pain is lung-related, a person should check if the pain is in the upper back and worsens with breathing or coughing.

Term Pulmonary Function Outcomes in Children with Pulmonary Hypoplasia,” published in the May 2025 issue of Journal of Pediatrics by Gipsman et al.

The herniation will be noticeable when you start ... you have a high probability of injuring the lung tissue, which would cause ventilation-induced microaspirations, pneumonia or lung contusions.

This is a hiatal hernia. There’s only so much room in the chest, so the stomach’s presence there certainly will collapse part of the lung. The reason this may need to be corrected is not ...

as well as on whether there is intrathoracic herniation of the liver. 4,5 The quotient of the observed-to-expected lung-to-head ratios is also predictive of early neonatal complications such as ...