Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease Flashcards
What is the Definition of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)?
- a common, preventable, and treatable disease
- characterized by persistent respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation
- Due to airway and/or alveolar abnormalities usually caused by significant exposure to noxious particles
What is COPD characterized by?
- persistent respiratory symptoms and airflow limitations
What are the Characteristics of COPD due to?
- airway and/or alveolar abnormalities
- usually caused by significant exposure to noxious particles or gases
What are some COPD stats?
- 4th leading cause of death
- 3rd leading cause of death by 2020
- 3million died of COPD in 2012 (6% of all deaths)
- COPD burden expected to increase
What is the Etiology of COPD?
- Smoking
- Pollutants
- Host Factors
What is the Pathobiology of COPD?
- Impaired lung growth
- accelerated decline
- lung injury
- lung & systemic inflammation
What is the Pathology of COPD?
- Small airway disorders or abnormalities
- Emphysema
- Systemic Effects
- Chronic Inflammation
- Structural Changes
What are the Clinical Manifestations of COPD?
- Symptoms
- Exacerbations
- Comorbidities
What are the most common respiratory symptoms of COPD?
- Dyspnea
- Cough
- Sputum production
What are the main risk factors of COPD?
- Tobacco Smoking (MAIN)
- environmental exposures (biomass fuel and air pollution)
- genetic abnormalities
- abnormal lung development
- accelerated aging
What is COPD commonly punctuated by?
- periods of acute worsening of respiratory symptoms
What are exacerbations?
- periods of acute worsening of respiratory symptoms
What increases morbidity and mortality in most patients with COPD?
- Significant concomitant chronic diseases
What is the Pathogenesis of COPD?
- Oxidative Stress
- Protease-antiprotease imbalance
- Inflammatory cells
- Inflammatory mediators
- Peribronchiolar and Interstitial Fibrosis
What is the Pathophysiology of COPD?
- Airflow limitation and gas trapping
- Gas exchange abnormalities
- Mucus Hypersecretion
- Pulmonary Hypertension
What Symptoms are looked for in the Diagnosis of COPD?
- Shortness of Breath
- Chronic Cough
- Sputum
What is required for a diagnosis of COPD?
- Spirometry
What are the Key indicators of diagnosing COPD?
- Dyspnea
- Chronic Cough
- Chronic Sputum Production
- Recurrent lower respiratory tract infection
- History of Risk Factors
- Family History of COPD
- Childhood Factors
Describe what to look for in Dyspnea when attempting to diagnose COPD
- Progressive over time
- Characteristically worse with exercise
- Persistent