If the kitten goes to sleep and its respiratory rate drops, the patches of atelectasis can slowly expand until large areas of the lung collapse and cannot be reinflated.
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Doctors have promptly treated what is called atelectasis in medical parlance but were still considering performing a tracheotomy, in which a small artificial breathing hole is made in the throat.
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A study of 100 post-op patients followed with serial chest X-rays and temperature measurements showed that the incidence of fever decreased as the incidence of atelectasis increased.
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Rounded atelectasis is usually a complication of asbestos-induced disease of the pleura, but it may also result from other types of chronic scarring and thickening of the pleura.
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Therefore, the surface tension varies according to the volume of air in the lungs, which protects them from atelectasis at low volumes and tissue damage at high volume levels.
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If a tumor is blocking the airway, relieving the obstruction by surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or laser therapy may prevent atelectasis from progressing and recurrent obstructive pneumonia from developing.
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A segmental or lobar pattern may be apparent after aspiration pneumonia, atelectasis, lung contusion, localized pulmonary edema, obstructive pneumonia, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism with infarction, or tuberculosis.
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In rounded atelectasis ( folded lung syndrome ), an outer portion of the lung slowly collapses as a result of scarring and shrinkage of the membrane layers covering the lungs ( pleura ).
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Further, if a kitten does not scream or open its lungs well enough at birth, even if it is fully mature and has sufficient surfactant, it may end up with atelectasis.
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Newborn atelectasis would not be unusual in a very large litter of kittens ( such as 10 ), where the size of the litter may lead all the kittens to be small and mildly underdeveloped.
