Diseases of the lungs, bronchi and pleura (pulmonology)

Chronic bronchitis: classification

The most widespread classification of chronic bronchitis NR Paleyeva, VA Ilchenko, LN Tsarkova (1990, 1991). The classification is based on the following principles: determining the nature of the inflammatory process, the presence or absence of bronchial obstruction and complications.

Chronic obstructive bronchitis: treatment

Chronic obstructive bronchitis treatment involves a long. The basis for the treatment of this disease is the elimination of the pathogenic factor on the respiratory tract.

Chronic obstructive bronchitis and COPD

Chronic obstructive bronchitis is a diffuse inflammatory disease of the bronchi characterized by early damage to the respiratory structures of the lung and leading to the formation of bronchial obstructive syndrome, diffuse lung emphysema and progressive impairment of pulmonary ventilation and gas exchange, which are manifested by coughing, shortness of breath and sputum secretion not associated with other lung diseases, heart, blood system, etc.

Chronic simple (non-obstructive) bronchitis

Chronic simple (non-obstructive) bronchitis is characterized by diffuse inflammation of the mucous membrane predominantly large and medium with bronchus, accompanied by hyperplasia of the bronchial glands, hypersecretion of mucus, increased sputum viscosity and impairment of the purifying and protective function of the bronchi.

Treatment of pneumonia

Pneumonia treatment involves complex. It is aimed at strengthening general resistance, eliminating the causative agent of the disease and preventing complications.

Diagnosis of pneumonia

Diagnosis of pneumonia is based on the identification of five of the simplest and most informative clinical and laboratory and instrumental signs, called the "gold standard" of diagnosis: acute onset of the disease, accompanied by an increase in body temperature above 38 C.

Complications of pneumonia

The severity of the course of the disease and the tactics of managing patients with pneumonia are largely determined by the presence of pulmonary and extrapulmonary complications.

Symptoms of bronchopneumonia

The clinical picture and outcomes of focal pneumonia differ from the described bittern of clinical manifestations of lobar (lobar) inflammation of the lung, which is largely due to the peculiarities of the pathogenesis and morphological changes of both clinical and morphological variants of pneumonia.

Symptoms of croupous pneumonia

Shared pneumococcal pneumonia is characterized by the defeat of a whole lobe (or lung segment) of the lung and mandatory involvement in the inflammatory process of the pleura.

Symptoms of pneumonia

Symptoms of pneumonia and outcomes of the disease are determined by many factors interacting: the biological properties of the causative agent of pneumonia; individual features of the pathogenesis of pneumonia; the state of the bronchopulmonary protection system;

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