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Bronchiectasis
Bronchiectasis is a disease in which there is permanent enlargement of parts of the airways of the lung. Symptoms typically include a cough with mucus production. Other symptoms include shortness of breath, coughing up blood, and chest pain. and nail clubbing may also occur. Those with the disease often get lung .
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Symptoms — what it feels like
- ·Productive cough, shortness of breath, chest pain
Causes — why it happens
- ·, , other conditions,
Treatment
- ·, bronchodilators, lung
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