Pulmonary emphysema

The pulmonary emphysema is characterised with widening of the normal sizes of alveoli, which reduces their count. In the course of diseases there is cough, which gets intensive and moisture. Mucus and purulent sputum is expectorated. Breathing is short and superficially, and expiration is long and accompanied by whistling crepitating. The chest is widened frontal-dorsally. Because of the deficiency of oxygen supply there is pale cyanosis on the mouth. At the advanced stage there is progressive respiratory and heart failure. The complication of disease is pneumonia and pulmomofibrosis.