How to treat alveoli?

The treatment of alveoli cannot be ignored, but the correct treatment method should be adopted. Interventional therapy can be adopted because it can achieve good therapeutic effects, less trauma and less pain.

1. Bullae (alveoli) are caused by inflammation of the small bronchi in the lungs, which leads to mucosal edema and partial obstruction of the lumen. Air entering the alveoli is difficult to be discharged, which increases the pressure in the alveoli. At the same time, inflammation of the lung tissue causes the disappearance of collateral breathing between alveoli, and the alveolar septum ruptures, forming huge air-filled sacs, called bullae. Bullae are often secondary to other diseases, and are common in children with pneumonia.

2. Lung abscess, etc. Most bullae are solitary, but multiple bullae can also occur. Bullae secondary to pulmonary tuberculosis are mostly solitary. Bullae secondary to emphysema are often multiple. Bullae should be treated actively because they can easily rupture on their own, causing spontaneous pneumothorax, compressing lung tissue and causing breathing difficulties, and may even cause tension pneumothorax, which is extremely life-threatening.

3. Bullae often rupture repeatedly, causing spontaneous pneumothorax and secondary infection into empyema. Bullae can continue to expand to form huge bullae, occupying one side of the chest cavity and compressing the lung, causing lung collapse and producing dyspnea, cyanosis, and hypoxemia. In severe cases, patients lose their ability to work and eventually develop pulmonary heart disease.

4. Therefore, bullae must be treated actively. However, surgical thoracotomy and lobectomy of the lung or segmental resection are often performed clinically. Interventional treatment of bullae is characterized by less trauma (the puncture needle hole is the same size as the needle hole for normal injection), less pain, shorter postoperative recovery period and lower cost.