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Effect of Lung Disease Flashcards

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What does lung disease affect in the lungs?

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Both ventilation (breathing) and gas exchange - your lung’s function

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What is the tidal volume?

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The volume of air in each breath

The volume of air breathed in or out per breaths at rest

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What is the tidal volume typically for adults?

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0.4 dm3 and 0.5dm3

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What is the ventilation rate?

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Number of breaths per minute

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What is the ventilation rate for a healthy person at rest?

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15 breaths

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What is Forced Expiratory Volume1 is abbreviated to?

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FEV1

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What is FEV1 ?

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Maximum volume of air that can be breathed out in 1 second

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What is Forced vital capacity abbreviated to?

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FVC

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What is FVC?

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Maximum volume of air it is possible to breathe forcefully out of the lungs after a really deep breath in

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How to find out the tidal volume, ventilation and other measures of breathing?

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Producing a graph using a spirometer

doctors use this to measure the volume of air breathed in and out

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Diagram of a spirometer labelled (1)

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Diagram of spirometer graph labelled (2)

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Examples of lung diseases

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  • Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB)
  • Fibrosis
  • Asthma
  • Emphysema
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How someone becomes infected with tuberculosis bacteria form small hard lumps known as tubercles?

(TB)

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Immune system cells build a wall around the bacteria in the lungs

This forms small , hard lumps known as tubercles

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How is the tidal volume decreased with someone infected with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) have their tidal volume decreased?

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Infected tissue within the tubercles dies and the gaseous exchange is damaged

-therefore, tidal volume is decreased

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What is another reason that someone with pulmonary tuberculosis reduces their tidal volume?

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Tuberculosis also causes fibrosis

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Why is a reduced tidal volume fatal for someone with TB?

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Less hair can be inhaled in each breath

In order to take in enough oxygen, patients have to breathe faster i.e. ventilation rate is increased

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What is the common symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB)?

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  • Persistent cough
  • Coughing up blood and mucus
  • Chest pain
  • Shortness of breath and fatigue
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What is fibrosis?

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Formation of scar tissue in the lungs

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What can fibrosis be the result of?

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Infection or exposure to substances like asbestos or dust

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What is the effect of scar tissue in terms of fibrosis?

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The scar tissue is thicker and less elastic than normal lung tissue

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What is the effect of fibrosis on causing the scar tissue to be more thicker and less elastic?

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Lungs are less able to expand and can’t hold as much air as normal

tidal volume is reduced so is FVC (small vol of air can be forcefully breathed out)

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Why is there a reduction of the rate of gas exchange with someone with fibrosis?

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Diffusion is slower across a thicker scarred membrane

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What is the symptoms of fibrosis?

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  • Shortness of breath
  • Dry cough
  • Chest pain
  • Fatigue
  • Weakness
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What happens with people with fibrosis with their ventilation rate?
Faster ventilation rate than normal - to get enough air into their lungs to oxygenate their blood
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What is asthma?
Respiratory condition where the airways become inflamed and irritated
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How is asthma caused?
This varies case to case Usually due to allergic reaction to subtances such as pollen and dust
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What happens during an asthma attack?
* Smooth muscle lining the bronchioles contracts and a large amount of mucus is produced * Cause constriction of airways making it difficult to breathe properly * Air flow in and out of lungs is reduced - less oxygen enters to alveoli and moves into the blood * Reduced air flow means FEV1 is severely reduced (less air breathed out in 1 s
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What is symptoms of asthma?
* Wheezing * Tight chest * Shortness of breath *During asthma attack , these symptons can come very suddenly*
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What can asthma/ asthma attacks be relieved by?
Drugs - often inhalers cause the muscle in bronchioles to relax , opening up the airways
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What is emphysema?
It is a lung disease caused by smoking or long-term exposure to air pollution -foreign particles in the smoke (or air) become trapped in alveoli)
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What can emphysema cause as foreign particles in the smoke become trapped in alveoli?
Inflammation which attracts phagocytes to the area
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What do phagocytes usually produce?
Enzyme that breaks down elastin (a protein found in the walls of the alveoli)
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What is elastin and how is it helpful?
It is elastic It helps the alveoli to return to its normal shape after inhaling and exhaling air
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Why the loss of elastin in emphysema dangerous?
Alveoli can't recoil or expel air as well ( remains trapped in alveoli) - leads to destruction of alveoli walls which reduces the surface area of alveoli so the rate of gas exchange decreases
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What are the symptons of emphysema?
* Shortness of breath and wheezing * increased ventilation rate ( try to increase amount of air - containing oxygen to reach to their lungs)
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People with TB , Fibrosis , asthma and Emphysema how are the sufferers often feel tired and weak?
* Reduce rate of gas exchange in alveoli * Less oxygen is able to diffuse into the bloodstream , body cells recieve less oxygen and rate of aerobic respiation is reduced * Less energy is released
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FVC is the max amount of air it is possible to expel from the lungs after a deep breath in. A hospital paitent has emphysema The paitent has lower FVC than normal EXPLAIN HOW EMPHYSEMA REDUCE FVC
Emphysema involves the loss/break down of elastin in the walls of alveoli Alveoli cannot recoil to expel air as well
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FEV1 is the max vol of air that can be breathed out in 1 second FEV1 is around 80% of FVC in a healthy adult. The emphysema paitent has a FVC of 3.2 dm3 and a FEV1 of 1.7 dm3 In a fibrosis paitent , FEV1 is close to 80% of FVC even though FVC is reduced Suggest an explanation for this
Both FEV and FVC are reduced raito between them stays the same as in a healthy person
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Explain how the advantage of pulmonary capillary being very narrow
RBC are flattened against the walls of the capillaries to enable them to pass through slows them down to increase time for gas exchange reduce diffusion pathway increase rate of diffusion
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Describe the main difference between healthy lung tissue and the diseased lung tissue
Alveoli is enlarged/ much larger in diseased lungs in healthy lungs They have merged together In healthy person , the alveoli is more distinct
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Why people with emphysema have a lower level of oxygen in blood than normal
Alveoli is much more enlarged - small SA for gas exchange - slowing rate of diffusion of oxygen into blood Paitent with emphysema would have lower level of oxygen in blood
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How to calculate pulmonary ventilation?
Tidal volume x breathing rate
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What is oxygen consumption?
Volume of oxygen used (per minute)
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What is pulmonary ventilation?
Total volume of air breathed in one minute
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How to calculate pulmonary ventilation rate?
Pulmonary ventilation = Tidal Vol x Breathing Rate
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How to plot graph for spirometer
Volume of air in lungs (dm -) in y-axis Time seconds in x-axis
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Effect of exercise
* Tidal volume increase (deeper breaths) * Breathing Rate increase (Faster breathing) * Pulmonary ventilation increase (breath more air per min) * Oxygen consumption increase (more respiration)

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