Bronchiectasis is a chronic pulmonary disease characterized by permanent abnormal dilatation and destruction of the elastic and muscular components of the walls of major bronchi and bronchioles. The disease has three forms: cylindrical (fusiform), varicose, …

Respiratory System
Nursing diagnosis pneumonia. Pneumonia, acute infection of the lung parenchyma that often impairs gas exchange. Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the interstitial lung tissue in which fluid and blood cells escape into the …