Despite being relatively young, doctor Milan Sova has already achieved a lot. He is the head of the Department of Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis at the University Hospital Olomouc and also the chairman of the Czech Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases. At the moment, of course, the coronavirus keeps him occupied more than anything else. In...
Lung transplantation is an established method in the treatment of advanced lung diseases. Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis and other diagnoses are the most common candidates for lung transplantation. Approximately 150 patients from all over the Czech Republic are examined annually, and about...
Anyone who moves a little knows the name Hanka Kynychová. She is over fifty, but she still looks great, thanks to a lifetime of exercise. Hanka loves movement of all kinds, but like other fitness workers, she is now struggling with government regulations. Her gym had to close, both Hanka and her clients are getting fat and the athlete...
Gabriela Grézlová was a world record holder in free diving in the discipline of static apnea. She managed to hold her breath for 8 minutes and 33 seconds. During the race, underwater she tries not to think about anything, when she is at her worst, she rekindles her memories of watching the dolphins. In preparation for the World Championships, she...
The likeable fitness trainer Michal Břetenář works with well-known professional athletes, yet he had to quit his own top sport career. In the interview for LP-Life.com, the former professional boxer talked not only about his congenital heart defect, but also about how important it is to breathe properly in sports. He himself must focus on this...
Lung diseases are well known not only for their frequency, but mainly for of their severity. In order for our body to function as it should, we need a healthy heart, as well as healthy lungs. The lungs are a pair organ, which means we can live without one, but if we lost the other, we wouldn't survive a minute... ...
Before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in the Czech Republic, the name of professor Martina Vašáková would have been known only in the medical field. But the personable leading Czech specialist in the treatment of lung diseases, chairwoman of the Czech Society of Pneumology and Phthisiology and head of the Pneumology Clinic of the 1st Faculty...
Asthma (Asthma bronchiale) affects approximately 5-10% of the population. The chronic inflammation is associated with bronchial hyperresponsiveness and leads to recurrent episodes of wheezing, dyspnea, chest tightness and cough, especially at night or early in the morning. Come with us to take a closer look at how this unpleasant disease occurrs,...
Jiří Votruba has been the head of the 1st Department of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases of the General University Hospital in Prague for ten years. Among other things, he is the author of the book Lung Cancer. Most patients who are positive for Covid-19 complain of shortness of breath and difficulty breathing. We wondered exactly how the...
Antonín Pařízek is one of the most well-known obstetricians in this country. Chief physician of the perinatology center and deputy head of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the General University Hospital in Prague and the Charles University 1st Faculty of Medicine. Because November is the lung month, the professor talked in an...