What are the symptoms of emphysema?

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In fact, the most common clinical symptom of patients with emphysema is dyspnea. In addition, when patients with emphysema receive disease treatment, we need to do a good job from the fundamental point of view of the disease. For example, we should timely deal with the disease knowledge of patients with emphysema, and also need to timely change the lifestyle of patients with emphysema. What are the symptoms of emphysema? I'd like to share my views with you.

What are the symptoms of emphysema?

The onset of the disease is slow, with a history of chronic cough and expectoration. Early symptoms are not obvious, or feel dyspnea when tired, with the development of the disease, dyspnea gradually aggravated, so that it is difficult to be competent for the original work. Chronic bronchitis complicated with obstructive emphysema, in the original cough, expectoration and other symptoms on the basis of gradually aggravating dyspnea. When secondary infection, chest tightness, shortness of breath, cyanosis, headache, drowsiness, trance and other respiratory failure symptoms. When emphysema worsens, barrel chest appears, respiratory movement weakens, expiratory prolongation, lingual trill weakens or disappears, percussion shows voiceless, the boundary of heart murmur shrinks or disappears, the boundary of liver murmur drops, heart sound is far away, respiratory sound weakens, and lung has moist rales. Some patients had complications: spontaneous pneumothorax; Acute pulmonary infection; Chronic pulmonary heart disease.

The signs of mild emphysema were normal. When emphysema aggravated, the anterior and posterior diameter of chest increased, the appearance was barrel shaped, the spine was kyphosis, the shoulder and clavicle were raised, the intercostal space was full, and the activities of ribs and clavicle were weakened. The voice tremor was weakened, the percussion was clear, the boundary of heart murmur was reduced or disappeared, and the boundary of liver murmur was decreased. The breath sounds and speech tremors were weakened, and the exhalation was prolonged. Sometimes dry and wet rales can be heard at the bottom of lung, and heart sounds are far away. Patients with severe emphysema, even at rest, will also appear shallow and fast breathing, almost no breathing sound. Cyanosis, right heart failure with cor pulmonale, jugular vein distention, ascites, hepatomegaly, depressed edema and other signs may appear.

Generally speaking, after the emphysema patients have received the treatment of the disease, their living conditions may be better, but the emphysema patients may also have many symptoms of the disease, which requires us to consider and deal with in time. In addition, the emphysema patients also need to change their attitude towards life in time, and actively accept treatment is the best.

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The harm of emphysema is very big, we should pay attention to the disease, actively do a good job in prevention and treatment, do not let more serious complications threaten your health. I wish you get rid of the disease as soon as possible!