The clinical manifestations of chronic bronchiectasis

Refers to chronic bronchial inflammation and damage to the surrounding tissue wall, cause bronchial lumen expansion and deformation. Is a common chronic purulent bronchial diseases, the majority of secondary to upper respiratory tract infection and bronchial obstruction, especially children and youth measles, whooping cough after bronchial pneumonia. After a chronic clinical, measles, pertussis, influenza, inhaled foreign bodies, chronic rhinitis and sinusitis nasal side, such as history. Many childhood suffering from pneumonia, whooping cough and other serious lung infection history. Youth accompanied recurrent respiratory tract infection, and then a chronic cough with purulent sputum, Chen Qi or bed at night, postural changes in sputum volume increased. Acute respiratory tract infection with a high fever, chest pain, cough intensified, suffering from weight loss, anemia and other symptoms of systemic poisoning. Sputum collected in glass observation, can be found four characteristics for the upper bubble, the next hanging purulent composition, mixed in the mucus, the bottom sediments of necrotic tissue. Hemoptysis is another typical example of bronchiectasis. Some patients cough, expectoration not obvious, mainly hemoptysis repeatedly practiced "dry bronchiectasis." Expectoration not obvious. Mild patients can no abnormal signs, a typical local lesion can be heard and in the continued existence of moist rales, long-term infection can occur repeatedly clubbed fingers (toe) and emphysema levy.