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22 When airways go wrong Flashcards

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Types of respiratory diseases:

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  • Obstructive
  • restrictive
  • Infection and inflammation
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What happens in obstructive diseases?

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  • Airway resistance is increased
    • due to narrowing of the airways
  • outflow pressure is reduced
    • due to loss of elastic recoil?
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What is airway resistance

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the ease with which air can flow into and out of the lungs

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What is outflow pressure?

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The rate at which we can exhale

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What effects do restrictive diseases have?

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Reduced compliance

  • loss of elasticity
  • reduced vital capacity
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What is compliance

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The extent to which our lungs increase in volume in response to a given pressure change

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How do we measure airway resistance?

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Using FEV1 (the forced expiratory volume in the 1st second) - taken as a percentage of the total vital capacity

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What is a normal FEV1

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80% of vital capacity

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What do we use FEV1 for?

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  • measuring airway resistance
  • diagnosing airway resistance
  • monitoring it
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Name the obstructive pulmonary diseases:

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  • Bronchitis (acute and chronic)
  • emphysaema
  • asthma
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what happens in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease:

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  • covers emphysaema and chronic bronchitis
  • narrowing of the airways –> increased airway resistance
  • mucus build up
  • loss of elastic recoil –> reduced outflow pressure and gas exchange
  • over inflation of the chest coz of increased residual volume
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What kind of respiratory tract diseases can you get?

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upper and lower

  • upper is more common and easier to treat
  • lower is more severe so more intense treatment
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How many people die annually from COPD?

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3 million

-3rd leading cause of death in the world

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Acute Bronchitis:

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  • your standard phlegmy cough
  • caused by bacteria or virus
  • lasts for days or weeks
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Chronic bronchitis: what happens

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  • irritants cause inflammation of the bronchi
  • bronchi narrow
  • over production of mucus
  • airways become plugged
  • airways become more prone to infection causing inflammation
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Chronic bronchitis: causes

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80% smoking, sometimes environmental irritants

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Chronic bronchitis: treatments

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  • stop smoking
  • bronchodilators (can be preventative) open up airways to aid airflow
  • antibiotics to treat underlying infection
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Chronic bronchitis: symptoms

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  • shortness of breath
  • airway obstruction
  • wheezing due to turbulent airflow
  • chest pain - over exertion of muscles in breathing (not quiet breathing anymore, accessory muscles used)
  • productive cough - can look for bacteria present in mucus of cough
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Chronic bronchitis: lasts for

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3 consecutive months in 2 years

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Emphysaema: causes

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smoking or an alpha1 trypsin deficiency (2% of COPD patients)
20% of smokers will develop emphyseama

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Emphysaema: treatments

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  • stop smoking
  • alpha1 antitrypsin supplements
  • O2 supplement
  • lung transplant
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Emphysaema: what happens

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-irritants in smoke cause neutrophils and macrophages to release elastase
-elastase breaks down alveolar walls reducing surface area
-significantly high compliance
-increased residual volume and FRC because damaged alveoli retain air
-chronically over inflated lung
-reduced vital capacity
-inefficient gas exchange
-Hyperventilation because of excess CO2 in lungs (to get rid)
(-alpha1 antitrypsin inhibits elastase action)

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Emphysaema: symptoms

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  • hyperventilation
  • inflated chest
  • shortness of breath
  • muscle wastage due to inefficient gas exchange and hyperventilation
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what does high compliance indicate?

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loss of elastic recoil

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Asthma: Symptoms
-bronchoconstriction -over production of mucus -oedema (collection of mucus in cavities) both cause increased airway resistance
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Asthma: Treatments
``` Bronchodilators: -relievers -act immediately e.g. salbutamol -preventors -take two weeks to effect -contain steroids -dull down mast cell response Anti-inflammatories: Given in an asthma attack to re-inflate the airways ```
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Asthma: Mechanisms
- mast cells stimulated by allergen - release histamine and other cytokines - bronchoconstriction - mucus production - oedema - smooth muscle contraction narrowing airways
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Asthma: Causes
- hypersensitive reaction to allergens - exercise and cold air - genetics - stress - air pollution
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Name the restrictive diseases:
- fibrosis | - respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS, ARDS, SARS)
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Acute Fibrosis: causes
-severe trauma or infection
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Chronic fibrosis: causes
- industrial or environmental pollutants - prescription drug taken over a long period of time - disease process
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Acute fibrosis causes
protein exudation - causes fluid build up (oedema) in the alveoli
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Chronic fibrosis causes:
inflammatory processes which cause fibrosis
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What is fibrosis
- replacement of lung tissue with connective tissue (collagen) and fibrotic tissue - reduces gas exchange - reduces compliance, makes lungs stiffer
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Fibrosis: treatments
There are no treatments
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Fibrosis: causes
- environmental or industrial pollutant inhalation - cigarette smoke - auto immune disease
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Upper respiratory infections effect the
nasal cavity, pharynx and larynx
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Lower respiratory tract infections include
-tuberculosis pneumonia and chronic bronchitis
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Lower respiratory tract infections effect the
lungs, trachea and bronchi
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how often does an adult get a upper respiratory tract infection?
2-4 times a year
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How long does a normal cough last
15-18 days
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How long does a productive cough last?
13-17 days
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More women than men get productive coughs. T or F?
T
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More men than women get productive coughs. T or F?
F
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Pneumonia caused by:
bacteria - usually streptococcus - can be staphylococcus aureus or klebsiella - effects the alveoli and bronchioles but can effect the lung
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What happens in pneumonia?
Protein exudate fluid fills the alveoli, inhibiting gas exchange and this causes them to become airless and firm (consolidation)
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consolidation
Protein exudate fluid fills the alveoli, inhibiting gas exchange and this causes them to become airless and firm
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two types on pneumonia?
- bronchopneumonia - alveoli in some of the bronchioles are affected - lobar pneumonia - alveoli in a certain lobe all become fluid filled
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Tuberculosis stats: new cases 2012: active chronic cases 2012: deaths:
8.8 million new 8 million active 1.2-1.5 millon deaths
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TB is caused by
mycobacterium inhaled, extremely infectious, shows up red in sputum
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How many phases are there in TB? Name them.
2 Latent Active
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Describe the Latent phase of TB
- mycobacterium innitiate response which causes the formulation of a granuloma in lung tissue - isolated (only effect this lung tissue) - not infectious
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Describe the active phase of TB
- only occurs in 10% of people - spreads to the bronchioles and into the circulation - breaks down lymphnodes in order to enter the lymph - spreads systematically
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How does TB spread around the body
- Initially it replicates on the macrophages - thought to spread due to inefficient immune response - spreads to bronchioles - moves to lymph and collagen gets deposited around the bacterium destroying lymph nodes and alveoli - moves into the lymph and spreads systematically
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Treatments for TB
Very difficult to treat due to antibiotic resistance
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What percentage of people move from the latent phase to the active phase of TB?
10%
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Why does Tb transition phases?
Due to an inefficient immune response
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