Age-related changes in compliance — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: What is the effect of normal aging on lung compliance?_____

Answer: Increased compliance

Flashcard 2: What is the result of aging on the capacitance (compliance) of arteries?_____

Answer: Decreased (more stiff, less distensible)

Flashcard 3: What is the effect of pulmonary fibrosis on lung compliance?_____

Answer: Decreased compliance

Flashcard 4: What is the effect of emphysema on lung compliance?_____

Answer: Increased compliance

Flashcard 5: Lung compliance may be calculated by the equation C = _____

Answer: V/P

Flashcard 6: Lung compliance may be calculated by the equation C = _____

Answer: ΔV/ΔP

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Flashcard 7: What is the function of elastin?

Answer: give stretchy property to different tissues

Flashcard 8: To compensate for reduced lung compliance, obese patients have _____-_____ breathing

Answer: rapid

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Flashcard 9: During expiration, the slope of the pressure-volume loop _____ as the density of surfactant molecules rapidly _____

Answer: increases

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