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Lung diseases
Other disorders involving the lungs
Other disorders in the Contact a Family Directory having lung involvement to a major or lesser degree include:
Asthma
This is a complex condition that affects the airways - the small tubes that carry air in and out of the lungs. The usual symptoms are coughing, wheezing, breathlessness or a tight feeling in the chest.
Broncho Pulmonary Dysplasia
This is a condition found in a small number of premature infants who have needed respiratory support from a ventilator. It is more common the more immature the baby and is more likely to occur in babies who have required ventilation because of lung immaturity or in association with infections.
Cystic Fibrosis
While the lungs of people with Cystic Fibrosis are normal at birth, thick mucus collects in the lungs blocking some airways and resulting in damage caused by the infection.
Familial Dysautonomia
This is one of the hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies (HSAN) with many features which include respiratory congestion due to misdirected swallowing and frequent lung infections.
Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia
About 1 in 5 people with Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia develop abnormal vessels in the lungs called pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs). These malformations let blood bypass or 'shunt' past the lung air sacs.
Hereditary Thrombophilia
This is a disorder in which blood clots develop in the large vessels of major body organs including the lungs. By blocking the blood to the lung and depriving the body of oxygen, they may be rapidly life threatening.
Idiopathic and Familial Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
This is the term used when no cause is found. The term pulmonary hypertension is used when it is associated with other conditions such as severe sleep apnoea, emphysema, pulmonary emboli, some congenital heart defects, left heart failure and autoimmune disorders. In Idiopathic and Familial Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension blood pressure in the lungs rises far above normal levels leading to the heart having a lowered ability to pump enough blood back to the lungs to collect oxygen to send round the body.
Ivemark syndrome
One of the features of Ivemark syndrome is mirror imaging of the lungs (isomerism) with both resembling a normal right lung.
Marfan syndrome
In Marfan syndrome features include pneumothorax (collapse of lung due to air leaking from the lungs into the chest cavity), bronchiectasis (a chronic inflammatory or degenerative condition of one or more bronchi or bronchioles marked by dilatation and loss of elasticity of the walls) and emphysema (over-dissention and destruction of the air spaces in the lungs leading to chronic shortness of breath).Prune Belly syndrome (see entry). Underdevelopment of the lungs is one of the possible complications of Prune Belly syndrome.
Prune Belly syndrome
Underdevelopment of the lungs is one of the possible complications of Prune Belly syndrome.
Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn
This is a rare disorder of the lungs which occurs at birth or shortly thereafter. The symptoms include cyanosis (blue cast of the skin due to deficient oxygenation of the blood), respiratory distress, tachypnea (increased rate of respiration), and minimal retractions (movement of an organ) during the first day of life.
Sarcoidosis
This is a multisystem disorder of unknown cause which can affect any organ of the body but most commonly attacks the lungs. It takes the form of cells which cluster together in tiny nodules, or sarcoid granulomas. The word sarcoid comes from the Greek meaning 'flesh like'.
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (or 'TB') is an infection caught from other people, as with a cold or 'flu. It most often occurs in the lungs and lymph glands but can affect any part of the body.
Inheritance patterns and prenatal diagnosis
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