Pneumothorax (sitting, lying, standing/breathing patterns for air absorption)

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xelami@gmail.com - 28 Nov 2007 13:43 GMT

Somewhat of a strange question, but I was wondering whether or not
there has been studies (I don't have access to the medical databases
right now and google isn't too generous with this information) done on
patients with pneumothorax for which position/breathing pattern is
better for natural air absorption by the body? Based on your medical
experience, what is the best form of recovery? I'm curious because I
was haunted by the pneumothorax (many times) and finally had a
pleuroscopy a month ago and now very enthralled by this phenomenon.
Thanks.

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Howard McCollister - 29 Nov 2007 13:16 GMT

> Somewhat of a strange question, but I was wondering whether or not
> there has been studies (I don't have access to the medical databases
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> pleuroscopy a month ago and now very enthralled by this phenomenon.
> Thanks.

Pneumothorax is a temporary phenomenon. The lung collapses due to a ruptured
bleb, and then it reexpands either naturally over a period of a couple of
weeks or right away by placing a chest tube to evacuate the air.

People can have *recurrent* spontaneous pneumothorax, in which case the
blebs that keep rupturing are ultimately resected so that stops happening,
but it's not an ongoing state of collapsed lung.

HMc

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