Bronchiectasis: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment Prevention What is bronchiectasis? Bronchiectasis (“bronk-ee-EK-tuh-sis”) is a lung condition where your airways (tubes going into your lungs) get damaged and widen Damaged airways can’t clear mucus like they're supposed to Bacteria then grows in the mucus, causing more inflammation and damage to your lungs
Bronchiectasis - Wikipedia Bronchiectasis is a disease in which there is permanent enlargement of parts of the airways of the lung [5] Symptoms typically include a chronic cough with mucus production [3]
Bronchiectasis - Johns Hopkins Medicine What is bronchiectasis? Bronchiectasis is a lung disease that usually results from an infection or other condition that injures the walls of the airways in your lungs
Bronchiectasis FAQs | Bronchiectasis and NTM Association Bronchiectasis is a lung disease with enlargement of small airways This leads to a slowed movement of mucus out of the lungs Holding mucus in the airways may lead to repeated lung infections causing more damage