|
|
|
|
Causes and Risk Factors of Emphysema
Smoking is the major cause and environmental risk factor for emphysema. The other causes and risk factors of emphysema are as follows.
- If people use intravenous drugs, then there is pulmonary vascular damage.
- Immune deficiency syndrome and Pneumocystis carinii infection damages the apical and cortical bullous lungs.
- Vasculitis syndrome, which is associated with obstructive lung disease.
- Connective tissue disorders, which is a congenital condition and affects the synthesis of elastin and tropoelastin.
- Salla disease, which is an autosomal recessive storage disorder causes precocious emphysema due to impaired activity of serum trypsin enzyme.
- Lung damage can occur with age and symptoms are seen after 50 years of age.
- Exposure to second hand smoke.
- Exposure to chemical fumes, dust from grains, cotton or wood.
- Exposure to pollutants like car exhaust, fumes from heating fuel.
- Heredity.
Written by: Healthplus24 team
Date: December 02,2008
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Related articles for emphysema
|
|
^ Top of Page |
|
No References Exists
|
|
|