Abstract
Recently, pulmonary diseases which seem to be closely connected with environmental factors are increasing in remarkably overpopulated cities.
With progress of the pulmonary function tests, pathophysiology of the chronic pulmonary diseases finaly leading to cor pulmonale has something in common with that of the airway ob-struction. These diseases are similar to one another on clinical finding and then physiological treatment of them is also similar to one another. So they are called “chronic obstructive lung disease, COLD”or “chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD”.
Although these diseases can apparently be reduced to a simple disease or change of bronchus, their background factors are complicated in pathogenesis. In clinic, therefore, we must be based on making the patho-physiology clear upon them.
Now today, we have five specialists here, so we will discuss the problem on treatment of the chronic obstructive lung diseases.
