Restrictive lung disease

Updated: 2017-06-13

Overview

Restrictive lung disease is a term for a condition in which a person has difficulty fully expanding the lungs with air. Causes include injury, surgical removal of part of a lung, obesity, sarcoidosis, muscular disorders such as muscular dystrophy, and scarring of the lungs (pulmonary fibrosis).

Treatments

Treatment focuses on the underlying condition.