Tuberculosis, Lung Infections, and Respiratory Care

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

COPD is a disease involving airway inflammation and thickening.  It also involves the destruction of oxygen-exchanged lung tissue. The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is described as "preventable and treatable disease, characterized by an incompletely reversible airflow limitation, which is usually progressive and is associated with an abnormal inflammatory response to harmful particles or gases. This gradual and relentless loss of lung disease is caused by emphysema caused by the destruction of the lung parenchyma. Smoking (long term smokers), chronic bronchitis, genetic factors (genes) and due to chronic inflammation and fibrosis as well as elasticity The resulting loss of small airway narrows, which leads to gradual airflow limitation, air capture, and further shortages of breathing in motion.