What are the symptoms of emphysema?
Signs and symptoms of emphysema are progressive shortness of breath especially with exercise. You can start to develop Carpal Manali where the right heart starts to fail because it has to pump blood into the lungs under increasing pressure. So, you get ankle swelling, you can get some chest pain associated with that, but by in large the most difficult problem that an emphysema encounters early on is the fact that he can’t walk across the room like he use to without being short of breath. He can’t go outside and throw a baseball for his grandkids. He can’t go out and pull weeds. Bending over to tie his shoes is so difficult because it presents for shortness of breath.
