Emphysema What is the clinical manifestations

Incidence slow, many chronic cough, expectoration history. Early symptoms not obvious, when feeling tired or breathing difficulties, with the condition, breathing difficulties gradually worsened and thus failed the original work. With chronic bronchitis in obstructive pulmonary emphysema, in the original cough, expectoration, and other symptoms on the basis of a more severe breathing difficulties. When the secondary infection, a chest tightness, dyspnea, cyanosis, headache, lethargy, he was trance-like symptoms, such as respiratory failure. Emphysema occurs when heavier barrel chest, breathing movement weakened breath extended language vibrato weaken or disappear,was the voiceless, the heart voiced sector shrunk or disappeared, liver voiced sector decreased heart sound distant, breathing sound weakened lung wet-tone. Some patients with complications: spontaneous pneumothorax; Acute pulmonary infection; Chronic cor pulmonale.