Emphysema destroys your lungs. A pair of human lungs contains about 700 million air sacs, called alveoli, that facilitate breathing and transfer oxygen to your bloodstream. Each of these air sacs create their own individual chambers, but emphysema causes the walls of the alveoli to burst, turning those small chambers into much larger connected chambers. […]
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