Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes changes in your lungs that affect your breathing. As a result, you may not get enough oxygen or use it fully. That can lead to hypoxia ...

The most common cause of hypoxia is hypoxic hypoxia. This occurs when the lungs don’t receive a sufficient amount of oxygen.

Symptoms include shortness of breath and unexplained exhaustion. Hypoxia most commonly results from lung conditions but may stem from a heart or liver condition or an injury. This article explores ...

The virus might also create hypoxia by damaging the blood vessels that lead to the lungs, Moss said. Normally, when a patient has pneumonia, the tiny blood vessels around the fluid-filled areas of ...

Lung auscultation can yield helpful information to diagnose the underlying condition that presents clinically with hypoxia. Bilateral basilar crackles may indicate pulmonary edema or volume ...

Testing the limits of health systems around the world, Covid-19 has served the global citizenry an unexpected dose of societal disarray. In addition to causing the typical respiratory symptoms, it ...

Hypoxia's ability to quietly inflict damage is why it's been coined "silent." In coronavirus patients, it's thought that the infection first damages the lungs, rendering parts of them incapable of ...

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) recently found that a 2023 triple-fatal crash near Cloncurry was "entirely ...

It is unclear how sublethal hypoxia affects lung development. To investigate the effects of chronic hypoxia on postnatal lung remodeling, we treated neonatal rats with FIO 2 of 0.12 for 10 d and ...

COPD hypoxia happens when a lung disease like emphysema makes it difficult to breathe, reducing the amount of oxygen in your body. This condition can be life threatening. The inability to get ...

The virus might also create hypoxia by damaging the blood vessels that lead to the lungs, Moss said. Normally, when a patient has pneumonia, the tiny blood vessels around the fluid-filled areas of ...