The Disorder
Symptoms
Causes
Treatment
Diagnosis
100
A malfunction based around the transfer of Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen in your body.
What is Respiratory Disorder?
100
A symptom that a patient can have for many years without noticing, involves difficulty transferring oxygen through the lungs.
What is Shortness of Breath?
100
A type of pollution that can be inhaled by the people around you and can be a cause towards Emphysema.
What is Secondhand smoke?
100
A drug that can relieve Emphysema related coughing by releasing constricted airways.
What are bronchodilators?
100
A test in which a doctor looks into your lung to check for any damages using a scan.
What is X-ray?
200
A disorder that gradually damages the sacs contained in your lungs?
What is Emphysema?
200
A possible nightly symptom that can occur due to difficulty breathing.
What is a Lack of Sleep?
200
A pollution produced by many factories that can also have an effect on getting Emphysema.
What is manufacturing fumes?
200
A solution to infected wounds inside the lungs caused by Emphysema.
What are antibiotics?
200
A test in which the doctor takes blood from your body to see how well it can transfer oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What is lab/blood tests?
300
The umbrella disease hat is associated with many respiratory disorders like Emphysema. (Abbreviated COPD)
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?
300
A more severe symptom that involves a lack of blood and oxygen to the hands and fingers.
What is Blue or black fingertips?
300
A possible way of getting Emphysema is by getting it from a family member, this method is called this.
What is Inheriting?
300
A type of therapy where the breathing of an Emphysema patient is regulated by pumping air into their lungs during sleep.
What is Supplemental Oxygen?
300
A moe non-invasive test in which the doctor simply sees how much air your lungs can hold.
What is the lung function test?
400
The two gasses that are transferred in your lungs.
What is Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen?
400
A mental symptom that can often be paired with a lack of sleep or energy.
What is not being mentally alert?
400
Emphysema can also be caused by a lack of this protein.
What is alpha-1-antitrypsin?
400
A form of surgery that removes the damaged parts of the lung to allow the good sections to expand and grow.
What is Lung volume reduction surgery?
400
A method to avoiding Emphysema that allows for you to avoid breathing in a large amount of smoke.
What is avoiding smoking cigarettes?
500
If spread out over a flat plane, these would cover an area of about 300 square meters.
What is Alveoli?
500
One of the first warning signs of needing to see a doctor due to Emphysema.
What is extreme and noticeable shortness of breath?
500
In general, the pollution that can cause Emphysema is called this.
What is airborne irritants?
500
A very severe method to curing Emphysema, in which you receive a replacement lung to account for your damaged one.
What is a lung transplant?
500
A method of therapy in which you are taught better ways to breathe in a healthy fashion, which could help cope with Emphysema.
What is pulmonary rehabilitation?
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