How long can pulmonary bullous pneumothorax live?

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Lung bullae, strenuous exercise is not afraid. Seeing this topic, most people don't feel anything, and even lazily read the contents. However, people who have suffered from bullous pneumothorax may have the feeling of destroying the three outlooks. If they don't look at it, they can't sleep at night. If you have "suffered from pulmonary bullae, had pneumothorax, had pulmonary bullae surgery", then let's talk about how long can pulmonary bullae pneumothorax live?.

How long can pulmonary bullous pneumothorax live?

First: different from the views of most doctors, for patients after surgery, I always tell them that they can have normal activities in the future, even strenuous sports such as football and basketball, without any taboos. I often say to patients: "you are not 70 years old, but 20 years old. If you worry about normal activities, your life will be ruined. If you don't exercise, you may cough. It's impossible to prevent. What's more, after the operation, the possibility of pneumothorax relapse is not big, if relapse, also be a piece of cake, do a small operation again not to get. Remember, no exercise is a big thing, relapse is a small thing. When mending the tire, will the repairman tell you that in order to prevent the tire from breaking again, the car should not be ridden again? If you don't use a bicycle, it will rust into a useless car. I don't want to be a useless person. ".

Second: when it comes to pneumothorax, you can use bicycle tires as a metaphor. The lung is an inner tube and the chest wall is an outer tube. The relationship between the lung and the chest wall is very similar to that between the inner tube and the outer tube. The inner tube is full of air, just like the lungs are full of air. The thickness of the rubber wall of the inner tube of a bicycle should be uniform. If the factory produces defective products, the rubber of a certain part is very thin, as thin as paper. After enough air is injected, the place as thin as paper will be blown into a balloon. That's right. The small balloon on the rubber inner tube is a pulmonary bulla. Pulmonary bullae are small balloons that bulge up in very thin areas of the lung wall.

Third: when surgery is needed, how is it done? Have you ever seen a mechanic mend a tire? So is pneumothorax surgery. Put the lung into the water, and the place where the air bubbles and bubbles come out is the place where the air leaks from the lung. Fill up the hole, and this is the operation of pulmonary bullae; In order to prevent air leakage (pneumothorax) in the lung, glue the lung and chest wall together, which is called pleurodesis. Therefore, the procedure of pulmonary bullae surgery is divided into two steps: filling the air leakage and bonding the inner and outer fetus.

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Pleural fixation is to glue the inner tube and outer tube together. The inner tube sticks to the outer tube, just like a car tire without inner tube. Air leakage is leaking into the space between the inner tube and the outer tube. If there is no space between the inner tube (lung) and the outer tube (chest wall), there will be no place for air leakage, and pneumothorax will not recur. The reason for the recurrence of pneumothorax in individual patients after operation is that there is no adhesion and degumming.