RESPIRATORY
CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE
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A pinky puffer has predominantly emphysema.
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A blue bloater makes heavy use of the breathing muscles
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A pinky puffer is overweight.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term “pink puffer” was used in the past to refer to patients with emphysema. Doctors used this term because emphysema causes people to have difficulty catching breath. As a result, patients gaps or take short, fast breaths. This often causes them temporary redness or pink coloring on their cheeks and faces.
Detailed explanation-2: -People with emphysema are referred to as “pink puffers” and experience shortness of breath due to a loss of elasticity, and eventual damage to the air sac walls (3, 4, 5). This leads to impaired exhalation and a buildup of gas in the lungs.
Detailed explanation-3: -The terms pink puffers and blue bloaters are used by speleologists in a colloquial sense to categorise how individuals react when breathing foul air in caves. Pink puffers hyperventilate and have good colour, while blue bloaters react slowly and look bluish because they are starved of oxygen.
Detailed explanation-4: -Panlobular emphysema is predominantly located in the lower lobes, has a uniform distribution across parts of the secondary pulmonary lobule, which are homogeneously reduced in attenuation 2-4.