A 67-year-old man presents to your office with worsening cough, sputum production, and shortness of breath....

A 67-year-old man presents to your office with worsening cough, sputum production, and shortness of
breath. He is a smoker for the past 50 years. He is known to have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Diseases (COPD). He was in his usual state of health until one week ago until he got a common cold and
since then he has a hacking cough and increased sputum production. this is all information I have

1. What are the two major clinical disorders/diseases are classified as Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary -Diseases? How do they differ?

2. Which one of the two syndromes above is more predominant in this patient? What is the
predisposing factors for the syndrome from the scenario?

3. Asthma is considered one of the obstructive disease of pulmonary diseases, explain the
the pathological mechanism that is responsible for asthma that causes the asthma attack.

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