Explain how restrictive disease patterns differ from obstructive disease patterns
What will be an ideal response?
Restrictive diseases decrease pulmonary compliance and reduce the effectiveness of inspiration. Restrictive diseases decrease the inspiratory capacity, vital capacity, and total lung capacity, and make effective pulmonary ventilation more difficult. Obstructive diseases increase airway resistance. Obstructive diseases decrease the efficiency of expiration since the elastic recoil of the lungs after expiration can collapse the airways.
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