Serious Symptoms Of Pulmonary Artery Sling

Recurrent Pneumonia

The airways in an individual's respiratory tract have many functions, including the production of secretions in response to certain stimuli. These secretions are meant to engulf the foreign substances and pathogens so the body can eliminate these secretions through the oral and nasal cavities by coughing and other means. However, this secretion elimination process is impaired in many pulmonary artery sling patients. The right pulmonary artery, left pulmonary artery, and the pulmonary trunk sits on top of and compresses the right main bronchus and trachea in an individual with pulmonary artery sling. This compression leaves less room or volume for the natural elimination of secretions from the airways and lungs. When secretions are not properly eliminated from the lungs and contain a foreign infection-causing pathogen, the pathogen is given the opportunity to colonize in an individual's lung tissues. Once the immune system becomes aware of the pathogen, the inflammatory cascade begins in the lung. The alveoli then fill with purulent material or pus, and pneumonia is the result.

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