Dario Argento hospitalized for respiratory crisis by chronic obstructive bronchopneumopathy. Here’s what it is

Struck by a respiratory crisis at the first light of dawn today while he was in Ischia to spend a few days of vacation, the director Dario Argento, 85 years old, was rescued by the 118 health workers and subsequently transported to the Rizzoli hospital, where he is hospitalized in the intensive cardiological intensive care unit.

According to what the Courierthe master of horror is alert, responds well to care and his health conditions would not be serious. From the first checks the accused illness would derive from a pathology of which the director has been suffering for some time: the chronic obstructive bronchopneumopathy. For this reason, the doctors appear willing to retain the director for a few days, in order to perform a series of instrumental exams in bronchi and lungs.

Chronic obstructive bronchopneumopathy (COPD), what it is

Obstructive chronic bronchopneumopathy is considered one heterogeneous lung conditioncharacterized by Chronic respiratory symptoms (struggles to breathe, cough, phlegm and regulations), due to air and/or alveolar alterations, which cause an ‘persistent obstruction and often progressive of the aerial flow.

In the presence of typical symptoms, the diagnosis must be confirmed by evidence to spirometry of respiratory obstruction not completely reversible. The damage caused by the COPD does not concern only the lungs, but goes further, and for this reason the COPD has also been described as one pathology cardiopulmonary.

It is known that the COPD has a strong cardiovascular impact, in fact many patients develop pathologies in this sense during the course of the disease, so much so that, even in the moderate BPCO, cardiovascular diseases represent a relevant percentage of mortality e Up to 44% of deaths in COPD patients are attributed to cardiovascular causes.

An under-diagnosticate pathology among Italians

In Italythis pathology affects about the 5.6% of the adult population (3.5 million people)although the numbers are probably much higher: the COPD is in fact widely sub-diagnosed or not recognized early, the diagnosis often takes place only in the most advanced phases, often on the occasion of a hospitalization for re-enactment; In addition, the patients themselves tend to underestimate the symptoms and to minimize early signs of a progressive loss of respiratory capacity. In any case, it is a preventable and negotiable pathology.

«The progression of the COPD is very heterogeneous and play a role to it to be Genetic and environmental factors “explained Mauro CaronePresident of the Italian Association of Hospital Pneumologists (Aipo-Its) in an interview a Vanity Fair. “The tobacco smokefor example, is the main risk factor, with about 50% of the smokers who develop the pathology over the course of life ».