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Respiratory fatigue; Side effects of asthma medications; Pneumothorax; Death.
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There is currently no cure for asthma. Proper treatment and management has dramatically improved the quality of life for individuals with asthma. When medication is utilized properly, the prognosis for most asthmatics is excellent. An improvement ...
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Although there is no cure for asthma, it can be treated and managed. Most patients with asthma respond well and are able to lead relatively normal lives when the best drug or combination of drugs is found. Asthma should not be a progressive, disab...
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Most patients with asthma respond well when the best drug or combination of drugs is found, and they are able to lead relatively normal lives. More than half of affected children stop having attacks by the time they reach 21 years of age. Many oth...
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Once the best drug or combination of drugs is found, most patients with asthma respond well and are able to lead relatively normal lives. More than half of affected children stop having attacks by the time they reach twenty-one. Many others have l...
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A lung disease characterized by spasms and inflammation of the airways, causing wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath. Asthma is a lung disease characterized by recurring and sometimes persistent spasms and inflammation of the airways, causi...
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A pneumothorax is collection of air or gas in the space surrounding the lungs.
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Pneumothorax is a collection of air or gas in the chest or pleural space that causes part or all of a lung to collapse. Normally, the pressure in the lungs is greater than the pressure in the pleural space surrounding the lungs.
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Pneumothorax (Collapsed Lung)A pneumothorax occurs when air fills thepleural cavity(the space between your lung and chest wall). This can cause all or part of your lung to collapse.
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Respiratory failure is nearly any condition that affects breathing function or the lungs themselves and can result in failure of the lungs to function properly. The main tasks of the lungs and chest are to get oxygen from the air that is inhaled into the bloodstream, and, at the same to time, to eliminate carbon dioxide (C0 2 ) from the blood through air that is breathed out.
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Respiratory failure occurs when the lungs ' ability to either add oxygen to the bloodstream or remove carbon dioxide from it is impaired. Respiratory failure can have any one of several causes, such as lung disease or infection , electrolyte imbalance, interruption of the nerve signals that regulate breathing or nervous system damage, structural (rib cage) collapse, or airway obstruction.
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