When the lungs become swollen and inflamed your airways may feel constricted making it harder to breathe. Breathing problems can affect your daily function and symptoms should not be ignored. Smoking and other irritants like bacteria, mold, birds, and some types of cancer treatments and drugs can be harmful to your lungs. Breathing problems can also develop with cystic fibrosis,... read more »

One of the tests our internist, Dr. John Abroon, may perform to make sure your lungs are working properly is a pulmonary function test or PFT, to evaluate the functional state of your lungs. We accomplish this with the help of a test called spirometry that measures your breath. Spirometry measurements can help Dr. Abroon to assess how much air... read more »