How to conduct diagnostics and treatment of emphysema? Do I need to abandon smoking in the treatment? I read the answers to these questions in the article.
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Diagnosis of emphysema
The pulmonologist is engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of emphysema.
In addition to inspection and auscultation (listening), the lung emphysema is used to diagnose the lung emphysema:
- X-ray study of the lungs (characteristic of the bloody cloth and increase its airiness).
- Computer tomography of the lungs are more often used to diagnose and determine the exact location of Bull.
- Investigation of the function of external respiration - allows you to identify the degree of violation of the function of the lungs.
Treatment of emphysema
- to give up smoking;
- oxygen therapy (inhalation of air with an increased oxygen content);
- breathing exercises;
- Adequate and careful treatment of the disease led to emphysema (chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma).
This allows you to increase the efficiency of the lungs, suspend the development of respiratory and heart failure.
With bullous emphysema, surgical treatment recommends. The essence of treatment - Removal Bull. Such operations can be performed both using classical access with an opening of the chest and endoscopically (using special tools, through pinches of the chest). Endoscopic removal Bull is preferable: much shorter recovery period after the operation, there is no scar on the chest.
Timely removal of Bull warns the development of such a formidable complication, as a pneumothorax (air entering the pleural cavity due to bullies).
