tissue, atelectasis is not synonymous with a pneumothorax, which is a more specific condition that can cause atelectasis. Acute atelectasis may occur...

diseases or conditions that affect the chest include pleurisy, flail chest, atelectasis, and the most common condition, chest pain. These conditions can be hereditary...

Silent sinus syndrome is a subtype of stage three chronic maxillary atelectasis. The distinguishing factor is that in silent sinus syndrome, there is...

Wieringa MH; Bruce IA (2007). "The Erasmus atelectasis classification: proposal of a new classification for atelectasis of the middle ear in children". Laryngoscope...

diffuse pleural thickening, pleural plaques, pleural effusion, rounded atelectasis and malignancies such as lung cancer and malignant mesothelioma. People...

leading to atelectasis. It is thought that higher fractions of inhaled oxygen (FIO2) are associated with increasing rates of atelectasis in the clinical...

shown to improve lung function in non-cystic fibrosis pre-term infants atelectasis. Product guildlink.com.au "Pulmozyme Product information". Health Canada...

the mass. Atelectasis is partial or collapse of a lung that is reversible. There are numerous etiologies including post-operative atelectasis, surfactant...

in the small airway passages of the lung causes localized patches of atelectasis (lung collapse). This causes the area around the bronchus to appear more...

for further injury Cyclic atelectasis is particularly common in an injured lung Overdistension of alveoli and cyclic atelectasis (atelectotrauma) are the...

lung atelectasis, which is a term used to describe a collapsing of the functional units of the lung that allow for gas exchange. Because atelectasis occurs...

infections, infections of an abdominal incision or an episiotomy, and atelectasis. Due to the risks following caesarean section, it is recommended that...

broad range of diseases and disabilities. Pulmonary hygiene prevents atelectasis (the collapse of the alveoli of the lungs) and rids the respiratory system...

within the first 48 hours post-operatively) has often been ascribed to atelectasis, or splinting, but it is most likely part of a natural and non-infectious...

either normal or pathophysiologic but usually the latter (except in atelectasis, where absence of ectasis is the problem). Bronchiectasis, chronic dilatation...

flat chestedness that develops soon after birth is atelectasis.[citation needed] Causes of atelectasis include insufficient attempts at respiration by the...

and respiratory weakness. You may develop atelectasis if you breathe in a foreign object. The term atelectasis pulmonum was introduced in 1832 by the physician...

a basic health system. To increase pulmonary compliance. To prevent atelectasis (collapse of the alveoli or atriums) at the end of expiration. To facilitate...

Pneumonia/ pneumonitis Other Atelectasis circulatory Pulmonary hypertension Pulmonary embolism Lung abscess...

breathing may slow, causing air sacs in their lungs to not fully inflate. Atelectasis can develop and, if unmanaged, lead to pneumonia and postoperative fever...

goal if tolerated by patient. When treating atelectasis, IPPB is only useful in the treatment of atelectasis if the volume delivered exceeds those volumes...

often inconsistent in appearance in patients due to the potential for atelectasis causing positional ground glass or consolidative opacities. When the...

to compress the left lower lobe of the lung, causing consolidation or atelectasis. It was first described by William Ewart in 1896. "Definition: Ewart's...

Pneumonia/ pneumonitis Other Atelectasis circulatory Pulmonary hypertension Pulmonary embolism Lung abscess...

number of both acute and chronic health issues, such as pneumonectomy, atelectasis, pleural effusion, fibrothorax (pleural fibrosis), or some cancers (tumors...

Pneumonia/ pneumonitis Other Atelectasis circulatory Pulmonary hypertension Pulmonary embolism Lung abscess...

lobe. It is seen preferentially with atelectasis of the right upper lobe and is the result of rapid atelectasis producing an abrupt decrease in the intrapleural...

during expiration. Crackles can be heard in patients with pneumonia, atelectasis, pulmonary fibrosis, acute bronchitis, bronchiectasis, acute respiratory...

often called a "collapsed lung", although that term may also refer to atelectasis. A primary spontaneous pneumothorax is one that occurs without an apparent...

inflammation of lung tissue, and aspiration pneumonia; and in the long term, atelectasis and bronchiectasis. One reason aspiration can occur is because of failure...