Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) was unknown diseases. It predicted 14 million COPD’s patient in 1991 in USA,in the other hand it raised to 41.5% compare with in 1982.Mortality rate have raised up 32.9% from 1979 to 1991. World Health Organization (WHO) assumed that COPD was in fourth ranks of cause of death in the world, would have 2.75 million mortality or equivalence with 4.8%.…
Asthma is a cronic inflammatory disease characterized by reversible airflow limitatison and airway hyperresponsiveness. Persistent inflammation in airway tissues may lead to structural changes known as airway remodeling and consequently airway obstruction that is not fully reversible and progressive loss of lung fungtion over time. In asthma, airway structural changes include subepithelial fib…
We reviewed 42 patients (36 males, 6 females) with (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases) COPD that hospitalized in Pulmonology Department Hospital during February-June and October-December 1994, in spite of 18.5 percent among them were admitted through emergency unit. Fifteen patients (35.7 percent) were as referred patients. Twenty two patients were for the first time hospitalization, 16 Pa…