Introduction elderly patients with chronic bronchitis

Introduction elderly patients with chronic bronchitis

Elderly patients with chronic bronchitis (old chronic bronchitis) is the trachea, bronchial mucous membrane and its surrounding tissue of chronic non-specific inflammation. Clinical to cough, breathing with Lotan, or the onset of chronic and repeated the process is characterized. The slow progress of illness, often with obstructive pulmonary emphysema, and even pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary heart disease. It is a seriously endanger the health of the people of the common diseases, particularly the elderly多见. According to cough, breathing or with Lotan, the annual incidence for three months, for two consecutive years or more than two years, and exclude other heart and lung diseases (such as tuberculosis, pneumoconiosis, asthma, bronchiectasis, lung cancer, heart disease, heart failure, etc.) , To make a diagnosis. If the annual incidence of less than three months, and have a clear objective examination based on (such as X-ray, respiratory function, etc.) can also be diagnosed.