Symptoms of senile emphysema

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Emphysema can be senile emphysema or focal emphysema. This kind of disease mainly occurs in the distal end of the terminal bronchioles, which will lead to the decrease of airway elasticity, resulting in excessive expansion of the airway, and can lead to the inflation of the distal end of the bronchus, and then increase the lung volume of the patients, leading to the damage of the airway wall. The symptom of senile emphysema, below I tell you.

Symptoms of senile emphysema

The onset of emphysema is often relatively slow, most patients will have chronic cough, and the symptoms are not typical in the early stage of the disease. Patients often have dyspnea after a long time of fatigue, which leads to the decline of patients' tolerance and makes the patients incompetent for the original work.

Some people are on the basis of chronic bronchitis complicated with obstructive emphysema, this time the patient will not only cough, but also with a lot of sputum. Often patients with dyspnea phenomenon becomes more and more serious, but also easy to secondary infection, leading to patients with chest tightness and shortness of breath, leading to patients with headache and sleepiness.

After the exacerbation of emphysema, the patients are often in a trance, or even respiratory failure. The time of exhalation is prolonged, the voice of speaking becomes trembling, and the breath sound is weakened. Through the examination, we can find that the patients' lungs are lost, and it is easy to induce chronic pulmonary heart disease.

matters needing attention

Some complications of emphysema should be noted, such as pulmonary hypertension, right heart failure, or pulmonary vascular stenosis and scarring. If the patient's bronchus is infected, it may develop into severe pneumonia.