HLTH 335 Lecture 27: HLTH 335 - Tisone - 27
26 Oct 2018
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Human diseases - hlth 335 - exam 2 notes. There is hope for improving quality of life after being diagnosed with copd. Are programs available help with exercise maintenance. People give testimonies who have suffered from copd and how exercise. Acute inflammation of lungs in which air spaces in lungs become filled with an inflammatory exudate. Oxygen exchange is impaired, causing difficulty breathing. Fever, chest pain, and a productive cough accompany this disease. Chest x-ray and analysis of sputum can diagnosis pneumonia and determine its cause. Pneumonia can be caused by a variety of microorganisms and it may affect different areas of lungs. (a) bronchopneumonia with localized pattern (b) lobar pneumonia with diffuse pattern within lobe (c) interstitial pneumonia is typically diffuse and bilateral. Infants and children may be spared some respiratory diseases like diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough) by vaccine (dpt) injections.
