Atelectasis (collapsed lung): How is it treated?

Q.	What is the treatment for a collapsed lung? Helen / No state given see response Mayo Clinic pulmonologist Edward Rosenow, M.D., and colleagues answer select questions from readers.

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• Air fresheners: Could continuous scents hurt my lungs?
• Atelectasis (collapsed lung): How is it treated?
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• Bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia (BOOP)
• Cigar smoking: Safer than cigarettes?



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• Emphysema: Does cold weather make it worse?
• Granuloma: What is it?
• Hookah smoking: Is it safer than cigarettes?
• Hot tub lung: Am I at risk?



• Hyperinflated lungs: What does it mean?
• Hypoxemia: What are the causes?
• I quit smoking: Why am I still coughing?
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• Lung cancer diagnosis: Is earlier detection possible with breath test?



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