A chest X-ray cannot diagnose asthma but can provide valuable information during a severe attack or when someone is hospitalized with asthma complications. A chest X-ray can also differentiate ...

When a bleb ruptures the air escapes into the chest cavity causing a pneumothorax (air between the lung and chest cavity) which can result in a collapsed lung. If blebs become larger or come together ...

The fact that an otherwise healthy, young patient's cardiopulmonary system decompensates in such a manner owing to unilateral impairment is indeed surprising. The literature cited with our article ...