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Increased airway resistance and reduced elastic recoil.
Causes severe early dyspnea, scanty sputum, and hyperinflation.
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What does emphysema increase?
Basically smoking, as the most common cause of emphysema is smoking itself.
Which diseases are characterized as COPD?
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease consists of emphysema and bronchitis that occurs simultaneously.
What is characterized anatomically as the permanent abnormal enlargement of distal airway spaces and destruction of the alveolar walls?
Emphysema. The alveolar walls are destroyed and replaced with scar tissue, which cannot allow diffusion of oxygen from the alveolus to the capillary. It cannot be reversed.
Which malfunction of the human body is characterized by an enlargement and degeneration of the alveoli resulting in the decrease lung capacity?
emphysema (C)
Which malfunction of the human body is characterized by an enlargement and degeneration of the alveoli resulting in a decreased lung capacity?
emphysema (C)
Condition characterized by fibrosis of the lungs and an increase in size of the alveolar chambers?
Emphysema generally is characterized by such symptoms, as well as: - Patients becoming barrel-chested due to air retention - Alveolar wall destruction - Chronic lung inflammation - Loss of lung elasticity - Collapse of bronchioles on expiration As well as those already stated!
Inflammation is characterized by an increase in?
histamines
Why has your body got bigger now you have emphysema?
If you are on steroids to treat inflammation that causes emphysema, your body can add weight. If you are also retaining fluid from heart disease, your weight can increase.
Can having emphysema cause seizures?
During the usual course of emphysema, a person who has never had seizures before will not have any seizures. A person could or might have a seizure if they experience a severe impairment in the ability to breathe--such as if they contracted pneumonia on top of the emphysema--and had even less O2. But generally, emphysema is just a chronic lung disease characterized by inflammation, increased phlegm and coughing, and impaired gas exchange.
The thermosphere is characterized by a drastic increase in temperature. What is the reason for this increase?
absorption of ultraviolet rays from the Sun
The thermosphere is characterized by a drastic increase in temperature What is the reason for this increase?
Absorbtion of ultra violet rays from the sun.
What cancer is A malignancy characterized by a progressive increase of abnormal leukocytes?
leukaeimia
