Sentences with phrase «chronic airway obstruction»

Chronic airway obstruction may trap air in the tiny lung passages called alveoli, leading to over-inflation and lung damage.

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Patients with COPD have airflow obstruction that is caused either by destruction of the air sacs that exchange gas in the lungs (emphysema) and / or inflammation of the airways (chronic bronchitis).

Pulmonary rehabilitation is a treatment for people whose chronic bronchitis leads to airway obstruction, or COPD.

But some 18 million American adults (and an equal number of children, according to estimates) have a chronic disorder characterized by repeated airway obstruction while sleeping.