HHT is a disease that affects the way blood vessels ... Normally, when HHT takes host in the lungs, it happens in isolated areas in bigger clumps that surgeons can treat. But Harper has a rare ...

These men and women are fighting a common enemy: COPD – Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ... a genetic, or hereditary predisposition due to alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency.

Terry – who is 59 – was diagnosed with COPD – or, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – four ... his parents were heavy smokers and he had a hereditary predisposition to COPD due to ...