What does a collapsed lung mean? What is the treatment?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-19T01:54:05

When air gets between one of your lungs and the wall of your chest, the pressure can bear down on the lung and make it give way, at least partly.

Your doctor treats a collapsed lung by basically getting rid of the pressure outside the lung so it can inflate again.