2006-06-18 09:20:17 · 6 answers · asked by Kevin L 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Yes, hypoxemia can be caused by restrictive lung disease. Based upon pulmonary function test, pulmonary disorders can be categorized based upto their appearance on PFT's. The 3 functional disorders are obstructive, restrictive, and diffusion defects. In general, obstructive patterns includes disease states like emphysema, chronic bronchitis, asthma. Usually they are characterized by not being able to get air out of there lungs ie air trapping. Restrictive patterns is characterized by smaller lung volumes and inability to fully expand your lungs. An example is pulmonary fibrosis. With any of these patterns, eventually as the disease state progresses, the ability to exchange oxygen for carbon dioxide becomes compromised. As you can see that for restrictive patterns, the inability to get full lung volumes (taking a full breathe) because you cannot expand your lungs completely will ultimately result in low oxygen in the blood.
2006-06-18 09:25:43 · answer #1 · answered by julius 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Lots of reasons for this.
Could be asthma, or a few other things I can't help you with, or could be bought on by smoking.
Either way, it should really be a doctors advice.
2006-06-18 09:26:34 · answer #2 · answered by jimbo_thedude 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
could be pulmonary edema. Can you tell us why the question, and what you need to know?
2006-06-18 09:25:47 · answer #3 · answered by MOI 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Relax your grip...Stop choking yourself!
2006-06-18 09:27:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
JULIUS hit it on the nose!
2006-06-18 09:57:16 · answer #5 · answered by ironn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hypoxemia ...do u want to know abt asthma or any other disease
2006-06-18 09:23:21 · answer #6 · answered by Sagitarian 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋