Polyalveolysis

Polyalveolysis is a pathological process characterized by the destruction of the walls of many alveoli of the lungs.

Alveoli are the smallest air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange occurs between inhaled and exhaled air. With polyalveolysis, the walls of many alveoli are destroyed, which leads to a decrease in the gas exchange surface in the lungs.

The main causes of polyalveolysis include:

1. Chronic inflammatory lung diseases (chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis)

2. Prolonged inhalation of toxic gases and dust

3. Smoking

4. Some infectious diseases (tuberculosis)

The main symptoms of polyalveolysis:

1. Dyspnea

2. Decreased exercise tolerance

3. Chronic cough

4. Cyanosis (blueness of the skin)

Diagnosis of polyalveolysis is carried out using radiography and computed tomography of the lungs. The images show multiple thin-walled cavities in the lung tissue.

Treatment of polyalveolysis consists of eliminating the causes that led to the disease, as well as symptomatic therapy. The prognosis for polyalveolysis is generally unfavorable due to the progressive decline in lung function.

Polyalveolosis (Polyalveolosis, English Polyalveoosis /ɛplɪ ˈælvjəʊləsɪs/, from ancient Greek πολυ - “many” + alloesopemic alveoli + ὀστῆς “bone”) is a rare disease characterized by the destruction of thin alveoli and the deposition of collagen along their perimeter feria in the lungs, usually developing against the background of systemic connective tissue diseases. Both the lung tissue and the pulmonary lymphatic system are affected. The occurrence of the disease is associated with a violation of both the synthetic and remodeling potential of not only mesenchymal cells, but also smooth muscle cells of small bronchi. It is one of the types of cystic medial lung lesions [2].

The term "polyalveolitis" is not etymological. In most of his works, A. S. Pushkin in the second half of the nineteenth century uses the term “cystoemphysema”. Moreover, not a single text by Pushkin on 2935 pages of this