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Atelectasis is the collapsing of a lungwhen there is an interference with the natural forces that promote lung expansion. Pneumonia is an inflammatory process and infection, usually involving fluid in the lungs.
Atelectasis is basically a collapsed lung.
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Can you have atelectasis and pneumonia?
If you like to live dangerously!
What could atelectasis in the infrahilar regions bilaterally and base of the lungs be?
pneumonia
What result from Griffith experiment suggested that the cause of pneumonia was not a chemical poison released by the diseases causing bacteria?
The difference between "walking pneumonia" and "true pneumonia".
How can atelectasis lead to pneumonia?
In atelectasis the area available for gas exchange is reduced. As the alveoli decrease in number. The risk of developing pneumonia increases as fluids tend to increase and waste accumulates in the lungs leading to potential infection Any time respiratory effort decreases one runs the risk of increasing complications of the respiratory system
What result from griffith's experiments suggested that the cause of pneumonia was not a chemical poison released by the disease-causing bacteria?
The difference between "walking pneumonia" and "true pneumonia".
What is difference between pneumothorax and atelectasis?
Atelectasis is a partial collapse of the lung caused by failure of the parenchymal (functional) lung tissue due to disease (i.e., COPD). Pneumothorax is the collapse of the lung due to mechanical causes (i.e., traumatic injury, violent coughing).
What's difference between pneumonitis and pneumonia?
Pneumonia involves the swelling or inflammation lung tissue and it is infectious whereas pneumonitis is not infectious.
What the common types of atelectasis?
Resorption atelectasis
What is posterior atelectasis?
what is bilateral posterior atelectasis of the lungs
What is the difference between a lung infection and pnuenomia?
Pneumonia is one type of lung infection, but not all infections are pneumonia. It depends on which sort of bacteria are causing the infection and where in the lungs the infection is.
What is the difference between streptococcal meningitis and streptococcal pneumonia?
Streptococcus viridansarranged in chaincauses minor disesaseoptochin sensitivity -veuncapsulated
What is atelectasis posteriorly?
atelectasis = collapse of the lungs. posteriorly = toward the back.
