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Chest Imaging

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

(COPD), a term that includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema, and is characterized by a persistent reduction in expiratory airflow only chronic bronchitis and emphysema, two diseases that often occur together and are indistinguishable clinically. COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States.