Is pulmonary lymphangiomyomatosis serious?

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Pulmonary lymphangiomyomatosis is not very familiar to everyone, because such a disease is indeed too rare, so how to diagnose pulmonary lymphangiomyomatosis? At present, the clinical diagnosis of this disease mainly includes imaging examination, laboratory examination and symptom diagnosis.

Is pulmonary lymphangiomyomatosis serious?

After suffering from pulmonary lymphangiomyomatosis, if you want to make a definite diagnosis, you'd better do X-ray examination, so that you can clearly observe some conditions of the chest. If you observe the presence of pneumothorax and the performance related to DPLD, it means that the judgment is correct, and you can also see pleural effusion under X-ray. In addition to X-ray examination, HRCT can also be done. When the patient has ground glass shadow, it is to remind everyone of intrapulmonary hemorrhage. The main reason is pulmonary hypertension. In addition, HRCT can show lymphadenopathy in patients with pulmonary lymphangiomyomatosis.

The second diagnosis of pulmonary lymphangiomyomatosis is laboratory examination, mainly to see whether the patient's lung function is normal, the main performance of lung function is the decline of diffusion function, decreased vital capacity. Hypoxemia can be detected in arterial blood analysis.

Some patients with pulmonary lymphangiomyomatosis find this disease after a long time, because it is easily confused with asthma and obstructive pulmonary disease. Lam should be highly suspected in women of childbearing age with spontaneous pneumothorax or pleural effusion accompanied by abnormal lung parenchyma changes and progressive dyspnea.

matters needing attention

The diagnosis method of pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis has been explained very clearly in the above article. It can be seen that there are three main methods for clinical diagnosis of such a disease, namely imaging examination, laboratory examination and depending on some symptoms. I hope you will choose to go to the hospital for examination after you suspect that you have pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis, Once diagnosed, cooperate with the doctor for treatment.