The elderly's bronchiectasis _ general knowledge

The elderly's bronchiectasis _ general knowledge
Bronchiectasis (bronchiectasis) Mean the bronchus is in charge of expanding and deforming enduringly in the lung. Because chronic inflammation and bronchus of bronchus and surrounding tissue are blocked, cause the pathology damage of the bronchus wall with more serious institutional framework. Tube wall fiber reconstruct, bronchus expand unusually, show as chronic to cough on being clinical, symptoms such as a large amount of suppuration phlegm or spitting blood repeatedly,etc.. Can erupt the intersection of lung and the intersection of fiber and take, pulmonary emphysema, the intersection of lung and worry, breathe getting depleted simultaneously later period.
Bronchus pneumonia after measles, whooping cough of a lot of diseases of children and the youth, the morbidity was 1%- 2% higher in the past. With the improvement of the living standards of the people, inoculation of whooping cough vaccine of measles, the prompt application of antibiotic, the morbidity of this disease has already been greatly reduced. But with the arrival of times of senilization of our country, this disease has the tendency to rise in the middle-aged and old crowd. After growing up, increase with age, the respiratory tract defends the function and physiological function to weaken gradually, old tuberculosis, ill rate of lung cancer of bronchus increase, has increased the ill factor of this disease.
COPD has already become the elderly's common disease, according to some demographic census of our country, account for 3.7% of the crowd over 15, the morbidity in the years old of North America 55- 85 age group is close to 10%, old bronchiectasis is continued and taken place in COPD more, outmoded tuberculosis, so have certain harmfulness. According to characteristic of this disease, the cold, dry morbidity of northern area is relatively high, and the climate is warm, the wet morbidity of coastal area is relatively low, the countryside is higher than that of the city, mountain area ill to lead with age increasing, increasing high than plain.
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