Anatom3DMedial bronchopulmonary segment
Segmentum mediale pulmonis dextri (S V) · Mediální bronchopulmonální segment
Respiratory system
Looks like
The inner segment of the right middle lobe (S5), lying against the heart.
What it does
Gas exchange in the front inner part of the right lung.
Keeping it well
Pneumonia here blurs the right heart border on X-ray, a sign radiologists use to place it.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Altitude sickness
- Asbestosis and asbestos-related disease
- Aspergillosis
- Asthma
- Breathing pattern disorder
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchiolitis & RSV
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- COPD
- COVID-19
- Cystic fibrosis
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Drowning
- Echinococcosis (hydatid disease)
- Endemic fungal infections (histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis)
- Hantavirus infection
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Influenza
- Kawasaki disease
- Legionnaires' disease
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
- Long COVID (post-viral syndrome)
- Lung abscess
- Lung cancer
- Measles
- Mesothelioma
- Metabolic syndrome
- Molar pregnancy and gestational trophoblastic disease
- Neonatal sepsis
- Neuroendocrine tumours (carcinoid)
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Pleural effusion
- Pleurisy
- Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP)
- Pneumonia
- Pneumothorax
- Pre-eclampsia
- Pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary oedema
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn
- Sarcoidosis
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- SIADH (inappropriate antidiuretic hormone)
- Silicosis and coal workers' pneumoconiosis
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
- Tuberculosis
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Whooping cough