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It says, you have "loss of capillaries as a result of alveolar was damage"
Why do you damage the alveoli in COPD & what are capillaries?
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Acute respiratory distress syndrome, commonly called ARDS, is a severe and often-fatal condition that occurs when fluid builds up in the tiny, elastic air sacs in your lungs. This makes breathing difficult and deprives your body of the oxygen it needs to function.
ARDS usually occurs in people who are already critically ill or who have sustained massive injuries. Severe shortness of breath — the main symptom of ARDS — develops suddenly, usually a few hours to a few days after the original disease or trauma.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the overall term for a group of chronic lung conditions that obstruct the airways in your lungs. COPD usually refers to obstruction caused by chronic bronchitis and emphysema, but it can also refer to damage caused by asthmatic bronchitis. In all forms of COPD, there’s a blockage within the tubes and air sacs that make up your lungs, which hinders your ability to exhale. And, when you can’t properly exhale, air gets trapped in your lungs and makes it difficult for you to breathe in normally.
The capillaries effect the final distribution of blood to the tissues. Their soft protoplasmic walls, through which the plasma, the oxygen, and the corpuscles pass into the tissues, have irritability of their own, and they are subject to many other influences, viz. those of the nervous system, of the blood which they contain, of the arteries and the veins at either extremity, and of the activity of nutrition. In COPD, less air flows in and out of the airways because of one or more of the following:
The airways and air sacs lose their elastic quality.
The walls between many of the air sacs are destroyed.
The walls of the airways become thick and inflamed (swollen).
The airways make more mucus than usual, which tends to clog the airways.
Most people who have COPD have both emphysema and chronic obstructive bronchitis. Thus, the general term "COPD" is more accurate.
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http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Copd/Copd_WhatIs.html
The alveolar damage in COPD basically means that alveoli lose their elasticity.
Here’s a good link to explain it further:
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Copd/Copd_WhatIs.html
Capillaries are little blood vessels between arteries and veins where gas exchange occurs. (oxygen goes into the tissues and carbon dioxide goes out).