Asthma (disambiguation)

As asthma ( άσθμα from Greek, " panting " ) is defined as a paroxysmal, often severe shortness of breath that can have various causes:

  • Bronchial asthma is a narrowing of the airways that can be triggered by a hypersensitive bronchial system by external or internal stimuli. When speaking of " asthma " is actually often the " bronchial asthma " called.
  • Cardiac asthma is triggered by increased congestion in the pulmonary circulation in left ventricular failure. The attacks usually occur at night while lying on, so with the increase in the venous return or the central blood volume.
  • Nasal asthma is caused by diseases of the nasal cavity and may lead to bronchial asthma. Of this form, you rarely speaks.
  • Spasticum asthma or asthma spasmodicum, mainly based on spasms, usually psychogenic asthma
  • Uraemicum asthma is caused by a serious uremia due to infiltration of the lungs ( increased permeability of the alveolar and capillary walls, possibly with cardiac component).
  • Disambiguation
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