from Section 3 - Pulmonary Conditions Not Specific to Pregnancy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 April 2020
Restrictive lung diseases are conditions characterized by a reduction in lung volume, and may be subdivided according to the anatomic location of the pathology. Diseases of the lung parenchyma itself reduce lung volumes due to the poor compliance (‘stiffness’) of the lungs. Examples include interstitial lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis, connective tissue diseases affecting the lung, sarcoidosis and hypersensitivity pneumonitis. A second anatomic group involves diseases of the chest wall, where lung volumes are reduced by abnormalities of the lining of the lung (pleural thickening), the skeletal chest wall (e.g. marked kyphoscoliosis) or weakness of the muscles generating breathing activity (e.g. neuromuscular diseases).
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