In the months leading up to his death, Lynch opened up about the condition, which results from damage to the walls of the alveoli in your lungs. A blockage develops, which traps air inside your lungs.

It travels down the trachea – or windpipe – into one of two bronchi and into bronchioles before entering one of millions of alveoli, where gaseous exchange takes place. When we breathe out ...

The bronchi branch out into smaller tubes called bronchioles. At the ends of the bronchioles are little air sacs called alveoli. At the end of the alveoli are capillaries, which are tiny blood ...