It can result from acute lung injury or a lung disease like emphysema. Dryer houses controlled asthma, bronchitis, emphysema as well as pneumonia. Older terms for COPD are "emphysema" and "chronic bronchitis". Hickey died from emphysema and bronchitis in 1997. Pat Nixon died on June 22, 1993, of emphysema and lung cancer. Complications may include hemorrhage, subcutaneous emphysema, pneumomediastinum, and pneumothorax. HRCT may be diagnostic for conditions such as emphysema or bronchiectasis. A heavy smoker, Wilson eventually suffered from emphysema and later pneumonia. His death was found to be due to emphysema and chronic liver disease. Cigarettes, LV failure, Old age, Surgery, Emphysema (& asthma). Wilson died of emphysema complicated by pneumonia in 1971. It is used to diagnose pneumothorax, emphysema and other diseases. After a lifetime of smoking, Gardner suffered from emphysema and lupus. He said that he was also diagnosed with emphysema and kidney failure in early 2010. Laaksonen was diagnosed with emphysema in 1988.