which complication of asthma is life threatening?
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Management of Life-Threatening Asthma in Adults Additional complications of mechanical ventilation in life-threatening asthma include profound hypotension, cardiac stunning, arrhythmia, rhabdomyolysis, lactic acidosis, myopathy, and CNS injury.
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- Asthma is a common inflammatory disease of the airways. Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath. It affects 7% of the United States, 5% of … British people, and a total of 300 million worldwide. Athsma also causes 250,000 deaths per year worldwide.
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Asthma For other uses, see Asthma (disambiguation). Asthma is a common long term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs. It is characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and bronchospasm. Symptoms include episodes of wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath. These episodes may occur a few times a day or a few times per week.
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Asthma Symptoms include episodes of wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath. These episodes may occur a few times a day or a few times per week. Depending on the person they may become worse at night or with exercise. Asthma is thought to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.
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Asthma Asthma ranges from mild to severe. Some people have only occasional, mild symptoms. Others have nearly constant symptoms with severe, life-threatening flare-ups. During an asthma attack, the airways become more inflamed than usual. They narrow as the muscles surrounding them constrict. Mucus produced by the inflammation fills the narrowed passageways. As a result, the flow of air is partially or completely blocked. Asthma affects the lung's larger and smaller airways.
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Asthma Asthma is a common long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs.[3] It is characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and bronchospasm.[10] Symptoms include episodes of wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath.[2] These episodes may occur a few times a day or a few times per ...
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- Viral respiratory infections, including the flu, are the leading cause of acute asthma attacks. (Surprisingly, bacterial infections, with the exception of sinusitis, do not bring about asthma attacks.) Some people with heartburn can have asthma symptoms when stomach acid backs up into the esophagus.
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- Regional capital and Sicily's largest urban area. Sunny Palermo typically has less rainfall annually than any other large city in Italy. Catania Weather. In the shadow of Mount Etna, this region sees more precipitation than other areas, but also some occasional volcanic ash.
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Asthma Many environmental factors have been associated with asthma's development and exacerbation including allergens, air pollution, and other environmental chemicals. Smoking during pregnancy and after delivery is associated with a greater risk of asthma-like symptoms.
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- Definition: Rapidly developing inflammation of epiglottis & adjacent tissues, due to bacterial infection, may cause life-threatening airway obstruction Causative agents: Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus.
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- Asthma and COPD are two diseases that lead to airflow obstruction. Asthma is typically characterized by reversible airflow obstruction meaning the obstruction comes and goes. This is why asthmatics have varying symptoms. In contrast, COPD patients have chronic airflow obstruction. For some patients with asthma, they can develop airway remodelling and persistent obstruction that looks similiar to COPD on breathing tests. This answer should not be considered medical advice...This answer should not be considered medical advice and should not take the place of a doctor’s visit.
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- 1 Influenza (Flu). 2  Pneumonia is a major complication of the flu (including H1N1, or swine flu) and can be very serious. 3  Influenza-associated pneumonia is particularly risky for the elderly and people with heart disease.4  It can develop about 5 days after flu symptoms start.hronic Bronchitis. Chronic bronchitis causes shortness of breath and is often accompanied by infection, mucus production, and coughing, but it is a long-term and irreversible condition. The same bacteria and viruses that cause pneumonia can cause an infection in patients with chronic bronchitis.
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- A life-threatening allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) is a severe reaction to a specific allergen, or allergic trigger. Common triggers can include but are not limited to food, biting or stinging insects, medications and latex.
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- The cause of apparent life-threatening events (ALTEs) in infants reflects a differential diagnosis that includes an array of congenital or acquired disorders. Approximately 10-25% of apparent life-threatening events may remain unexplained following a thorough evaluation.
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- Most alarming are asthma attacks, episodes of severe coughing or wheezing where it is very hard to catch your breath; but asthma can also be a chronic condition. Treatment is by anti-inflammatories and bronchodilators.
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Asthma and Flu A. If you have asthma, you should do all you can to stay healthy. With asthma, any respiratory infection, including the flu, can affect your lungs, causing inflammation and airway narrowing. About 5% to 20% of Americans get the flu each year.
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Asthma Asthma may lead to a medical emergency. Seek medical help immediately for: Fast breathing with chest retractions (skin sucks in between or around the chest plate and/or rib bones when inhaling) Cyanosis (very pale or blue coloring in the face, lips, fingernails) Rapid movement of nostrils.
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Morphine for breathing difficulties It seems that it is the water weight causing the breathing difficulties, and as you indicate it's not from the morphine. Thank you for your quick reply. FDA required a REMS with Onsolis, because it is a drug that can lead to overdose, sudden serious breathing difficulties, and death. The REMS for Onsolis was specifically tailored to the drug and is not intended to be a model for the long-acting opioid REMS.
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Severe Allergic Reaction (Anaphylactic Shock) Severe Allergic Reaction Overview. Patient Comments Read 27 Comments Share Your Story. Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction that occurs rapidly and causes a life-threatening response involving the whole body. This reaction can lead to difficulty breathing and shock ultimately leading to death.
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Asthma An acute asthma exacerbation is commonly referred to as an asthma attack. The classic symptoms are shortness of breath, wheezing, and chest tightness. The wheezing is most often when breathing out. While these are the primary symptoms of asthma, some people present primarily with coughing, and in severe cases, air motion may be significantly impaired such that no wheezing is heard.
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Cardiac asthma: What causes it? Cardiac asthma is not a form of asthma. It's a type of coughing or wheezing that occurs with left heart failure. Depending on how severe your symptoms are, this wheezing can be a medical emergency. Heart failure can cause fluid to build up in your lungs (pulmonary edema) and in and around your airways. The latter causes signs and symptoms — such as shortness of breath, coughing and wheezing — that may mimic asthma.
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Status Asthmaticus Status asthmaticus is an acute exacerbation of asthma that remains unresponsive to initial treatment with bronchodilators. Status asthmaticus can vary from a mild form to a severe form with bronchospasm, airway inflammation, and mucus plugging that can cause difficulty breathing, carbon dioxide retention, hypoxemia, and respiratory failure. (See Prognosis and Presentation.)
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Overview An apparent life-threatening event (ALTE) is defined as an episode that is frightening to the observer and is characterized by some combination of apnea (central or obstructive), color change (cyanotic, pallid, erythematous or plethoric) change in muscle tone (usually diminished), and choking or gagging.
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Complications of Asthma For some people, asthma causes ongoing chronic inflammation of the airway. This can lead to permanent structural changes in the airways if not properly treated. This is known as airway remodeling. It includes all the alterations in structural cells and tissues in an asthmatic airway.
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Reactive airway disease [edit on Wikidata] Reactive airway disease is a group of conditions that include reversible airway narrowing due to an external stimulation. These conditions generally result in wheezing. Conditions within this group include asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and viral upper respiratory infections.
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- The major complication associated with aspiration is pulmonary infection: 1  segmental or lobar pneumonia. 2  bronchopneumonia. 3  lung abscess. 4  empyema.