Allergic bronchitis is an inflammation of the walls of the bronchi, which occurs due to hyperergic immune reactions. The disease is provoked by various allergens: household, plant, infectious, chemical products. The disease is manifested by paroxysmal cough, difficulty breathing, respiratory failure phenomena. The diagnostic plan includes chest radiography, spirometry, laboratory tests of blood and sputum.…
Hypersensitive pneumonitis is an immunologically mediated inflammatory reaction of respiratory bronchioles and alveoli that develops in response to the ingestion of inhaled allergens. Symptoms are characterized mainly by inspiratory shortness of breath, cough, chest pain, and in acute cases – a flu-like condition. Diagnosis of hypersensitive pneumonitis is based on the results of spirometry, chest…
Bronchial adenoma is a neoplasm originating from the epithelium of the ducts and mucous glands of the bronchial wall. Clinically, bronchial adenoma is manifested by shortness of breath, stridorous breathing, cough, hemoptysis, signs of inflammation of the respiratory tract. Adenomatous bronchial tumor is detected by radiography, tomography, bronchoscopy and bronchography, endoscopic biopsy. The neoplasm is…
Lung adenocarcinoma is a malignant neoplasm originating from the glandular epithelium of the bronchial wall. In the early stages of development, it proceeds asymptomatically or with mild signs of general intoxication. Later, a wet cough, shortness of breath, chest pains are added, sometimes paraneoplastic syndrome is present. Pathology is diagnosed using imaging techniques, bronchoscopy, genetic…
Lung agenesis is a congenital pathology of the development of the respiratory organs, in which the lung tissue and the main bronchus of one or both lungs are completely absent. In rare cases, it is asymptomatic, more often there is a cough with scant discharge, shortness of breath with little physical exertion, asymmetry of the…
Alcohol disrupts the neurochemistry of the brain, primarily causing an increase in “inhibitory” signals between brain cells. This causes physical manifestations of intoxication, such as loss of balance, low muscle coordination and memory loss. What is the first picture that comes to your mind when you hear the word “party”? If you have seen a…
Proteins taken from the immune system of sharks can prevent COVID-19 and its variants like the Omicron strain from entering human cells. But this type of treatment may only be available by the beginning of the next mass outbreak. Small proteins similar to antibodies found in the immune system of sharks can be natural killers…
Patients with blood tumors can benefit from a revolutionary drug based on anti-carcinogenic antibodies. They were found in a new drug, which is a kind of Trojan horse that helps patients with chemotherapy to overcome lymphoma. Thousands of patients with blood cancer may soon benefit from a drug based on anti-cancer antibodies, which some experts…
Lung abscess is a nonspecific inflammation of the lung tissue, as a result of which melting occurs with the formation of purulent-necrotic cavities. During the formation of the abscess, fever, thoracalgia, dry cough, intoxication are noted; during the opening of the abscess, cough with copious discharge of purulent sputum. The diagnosis is made on the…
Abscessing pneumonia is a destructive inflammatory process accompanied by the formation of multiple purulent foci in the lung tissue. The symptoms vary depending on the pathogen. Classic manifestations of abscessing pneumonia include febrile fever, chills, severe intoxication, cough with fetid sputum, anorexia, weight loss. Confirming diagnostic methods are radiography and CT of the lungs. In…