scholarly journals The protective effect of a beta 2 agonist against excessive airway narrowing in response to bronchoconstrictor stimuli in asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease.

Thorax ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. Bel ◽  
A. H. Zwinderman ◽  
M. C. Timmers ◽  
J. H. Dijkman ◽  
P. J. Sterk
Keyword(s):  
Protective Effect ◽  
Lung Disease ◽  
Obstructive Lung Disease ◽  
Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Airway Narrowing ◽  
Beta 2

Severe Obstructive Lung Disease

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Kreit
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Ventilation ◽  
Lung Disease ◽  
Obstructive Lung Disease ◽  
Lung Diseases ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Dynamic Hyperinflation ◽  
Airway Narrowing ◽  
Underlying Pathophysiology

Although chronic obstructive lung disease, asthma, bronchiectasis, and bronchiolitis have very different causes, clinical features, and therapies, they share the same underlying pathophysiology. They are referred to as obstructive lung diseases because airway narrowing causes increased resistance and slowing of expiratory gas flow. Mechanical ventilation of patients with severe obstructive lung disease often produces two problems that must be recognized and effectively managed: over-ventilation and dynamic hyperinflation. Severe Obstructive Lung Disease reviews these two major adverse consequences of mechanical ventilation in patients with severe air flow obstruction. The chapter explains how to detect and correct both of these problems and provides guidelines for managing patients with respiratory failure caused by severe obstructive lung disease.

Hemodynamic Characteristics in Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease as Related to Cardiac Size

Respiration ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hutsebaut ◽  
G. Scano ◽  
P. Garcia-Herreros ◽  
S. Degré ◽  
A. De Coster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Disease ◽  
Obstructive Lung Disease ◽  
Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Hemodynamic Characteristics
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