What does LESS EMPHYSEMA and MORE EMPHYSEMA Mean? | 7:30 🕢 AM, EST Tue Jan 17, 2023 | HITE1955 With: ‘ DOUG ‘ INOGEN ONE G5 | IO- 500
What DOES the FOLLOWING DOCTOR / PULMONOLOGIST TERMS Mean ?
LESS EMPHYSEMA
✅ * HIGHER BODY MASS INDEX
✅ * MORE METABOLIC CO - MORBIDITIES
⁉️ * Cardiac Compromise
✅ * OSA - COPD OVERLAP
⁉️ * Less Hyperinflation
❌ * More Chronic Bronchitis
⁉️ * Increased EXACERBATIONS
⁉️ * More Normal Diffusion Capacity
⁉️ * Higher Serum Levels of Inflammatory
Markers ( IL - 6 and CRP )
SYMPTOMS
❌ * Chronic * Productive Cough
❌ * PURULENT SPUTUM.
( My Late MOM had this, but, L👁👁KED the Part of MORE EMPHYSEMA with the THIN PHYSIQUE!! )
⁉️ * Hemoptysis
❌ * MILD DYSPHASIA Initially
❌ * Cyanosis, ( Due to Hypoxemia )
✅ * Crackles, WHEEZES
✅ * PROLONGED EXPIRATION
✅ * OBESE
COMPLICATIONS
* Secondary Polycythemia Vera Due to
Hypoxemia
* Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Reactive
Vasoconstriction from Hypoxemia
* Car Pumonale from Chronic Pulmonary
Hypertension
MORE EMPHYSEMA
❌ * LoBody Mass
⁉️ * Fewer Cardiovascular Co - Morbidities
⁉️* Fewer Metabolic Co - Morbidities
✅ * LESS MUSCLE MASS
✅ * HYPERINFLATION
⁉️ * Low Diffusion Capacity for CO
✅ * MORE DYSPNOEA
✅ * DECREASED EXERCISE CAPACITY
✅ * WORST HEALTH STATUS
⁉️ * Lower Serum Levels of sRAGEs
SYMPTOMS
✅ * DYSPNEA
✅ * MIINIMAL COUGH
✅ * INCREASED MINUTE VENTILATION
✅ * PINK SKIN , PURSED - LIP BREATHING
❌ * Accessory Muscle Use
⁉️ * Cachexia
✅ * HYPERINFLATION, BARREL CHEST
✅ * DECREASED BREATH SOUNDS
⁉️ * Tachypnea
COMPLICATIONS
❤️🫁 * PNEUMOTHORAX Dur to BULLAE
❤️🫁 * WEIGHT LOSS Due to WORK of BREATHING
What are LEXICON of?
Less EMPHYSEMA
1: ✅ * MORE METABOLIC CO - MORBIDITIES
2: ⁉️ * Cardiac Compromise
3: ⁉️ * Less Hyperinflation
4: ❌ * More Chronic Bronchitis
5: ⁉️ * Increased EXACERBATIONS
6: ⁉️ * More Normal Diffusion Capacity
7: ⁉️ * Higher Serum Levels of Inflammatory
Markers ( IL - 6 and CRP )
SYMPTOMS
8: ❌ * Chronic * Productive Cough
9: ❌ * PURULENT SPUTUM
10 : ⁉️ * Hemoptysis
11:❌ * MILD DYSPHASIA Initially
12: ❌ * Cyanosis, ( Due to Hypoxemia )
13: ✅ * Crackles, WHEEZES
14: ✅ * PROLONGED EXPIRATION
15: ✅ * OBESE
COMPLICATIONS
16: * Secondary Polycythemia Vera Due to Hypoxemia
17: * Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Reactive Vasoconstriction from Hypoxemia
18: * Car Pumonale from Chronic Pulmonary Hypertension
❤️🫁 MORE EMPHYSEMA 🫁❤️
1: ❌ * Low Body Mass
2: ⁉️ * Fewer Cardiovascular Co - Morbidities
3:⁉️* Fewer Metabolic Co - Morbidities
4: ✅ * LESS MUSCLE MASS
5: ✅ * HYPERINFLATION
6: ⁉️ * Low Diffusion Capacity for CO
7: ✅ * MORE DYSPNOEA
8: ✅ * DECREASED EXERCISE CAPACITY
9:✅ * WORST HEALTH STATUS
10:⁉️ * Lower Serum Levels of sRAGEs
SYMPTOMS
11: ✅ * DYSPNEA
12: ✅ * MIINIMAL COUGH
13: ✅ * INCREASED MINUTE VENTILATION
14: ✅ * PINK SKIN , PURSED - LIP BREATHING
15: ❌ * Accessory Muscle Use
16: ⁉️ * Cachexia
17: ✅ * HYPERINFLATION, BARREL CHEST
18: ✅ * DECREASED BREATH SOUNDS
19: ⁉️ * Tachypnea
COMPLICATIONS
20: ❤️🫁 * PNEUMOTHORAX Dur to BULLAE
21: ❤️🫁 * WEIGHT LOSS Due to WORK of BREATHINGI will need to though 
Hi again, hite, and thank you for this response. You may find that speaking with your medical team will provide you with answers to all your concerns. Please do check back and let us know how the conversation turns out for you.
Good luck!
Leon (site moderator COPD.net)
Had Orthopnea. This means that you feel like you cannot breathe when lying flat on your back. You need to
sit up to breathe.
But NOVEMBER 26, 2015, i couldNot!!No, thank GOD}}!! I have improved since then
Hi again, hite, and thanks for both of your responses. I am glad to hear that you are now much improved from 2015, when you shared you were experiencing orthopnea.
Keep up the good work!
Leon (site moderator COPD.net)
