When someone has emphysema, this causes the over expansion of the pulmonary lobe. This causes dead space of the lungs and as a result your organ has to work harder to help you breathe. This is a chronic, progressive situation.
When someone has emphysema, this causes the over expansion of the pulmonary lobe. This causes dead space of the lungs and as a result your organ has to work harder to help you breathe. This is a chronic, progressive situation.
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I would like to add a few more details about the disease. You begin to notice something is wrong only when you constantly suffer from shortness of breath. Another one of its symptom is expanded chest and the patient also looses weight. It is a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It causes the destruction of lung tissues around alveoli .one of the main cause of it is smoking tobacco and some people suffer from it during old age due to deterioration of lungs.