enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Pneumothorax - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumothorax

    It is often called a "collapsed lung", although that term may also refer to atelectasis. [1] A primary spontaneous pneumothorax is one that occurs without an apparent cause and in the absence of significant lung disease. [3] A secondary spontaneous pneumothorax occurs in the presence of existing lung disease.

  3. Atelectasis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atelectasis

    Atelectasis is the partial collapse or closure of a lung resulting in reduced or absent gas exchange. It is usually unilateral, affecting part or all of one lung. [2] It is a condition where the alveoli are deflated down to little or no volume, as distinct from pulmonary consolidation, in which they are filled with liquid.

  4. Atelectotrauma - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atelectotrauma

    When parts of the lung collapse at the end of expiration, due to a combination of a diseased lung state and a low functional residual capacity, then reopen again on inspiration, this repeated collapsing and reopening causes shear stress which has a damaging effect on the alveolus.

  5. What Chest Pain on Your Left Side Could Mean - AOL

    www.aol.com/chest-pain-left-side-could-141218196...

    A collapsed lung (called pneumothorax) can also cause chest pain that gets worse when you breathe or cough, and is usually accompanied by shortness of breath. Psychological disorders.

  6. 6 lung collapses and excruciating pain: How my mystery ...

    www.aol.com/news/6-lung-collapses-excruciating...

    Before my thoracic endometriosis diagnosis, one doctor said, “I’ve only ever read about this in my textbooks. I didn’t think people actually got this.”

  7. I spent a week in a hospital in Ecuador when my lung ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/spent-week-hospital-ecuador-lung...

    Sinead Mulhern has been living in Ecuador for six years. Earlier this year, she spent a week in the hospital due to a collapsed lung, a severe complication of pneumonia. The support she received ...

  8. Category:Deaths from pneumothorax - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Deaths_from_pneu...

    People who died from pneumothorax, commonly called a "collapsed lung". Pages in category "Deaths from pneumothorax" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.

  9. Pulmonary contusion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_contusion

    Contusion involves hemorrhage in the alveoli (tiny air-filled sacs responsible for absorbing oxygen), but a hematoma is a discrete clot of blood not interspersed with lung tissue. [4] A collapsed lung can result when the pleural cavity (the space outside the lung) accumulates blood or air (pneumothorax) or both (hemopneumothorax). These ...