Lung Compliance and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Table 1

Aspect	Low compliance	High compliance
Lung of normal structure	Small person	Large person
Lung surfactant	Respiratory distress syndrome.; Surfactant protein B deficiency
Fibrous stroma	Disorders of lung parenchyma	Age, emphysema, and semicarbazide
Visceral pleural	Thickening secondary to TB, Asbestos exposure, and haemothorax
Tone in muscle of; alveolar ducts	Histamine	Bronchodilator drugs
	Serotonin, hypoxia
Pulmonary blood volume	Mitral stenosis	isocapnoeic hypoxia
	Left ventricular failure	Pulmonary stenosis

Source: [10].