The lungs are exploding. Will the lungs really explode?

Recently, a 45-year-old woman in Hangzhou stamped her feet with anger while educating her children, and kept saying, "My lungs are going to explode!" " "Taking her word, the woman felt a sharp pain in her chest, and she was black at the moment, so she couldn't take a deep breath. She was taken to the hospital for emergency treatment and found that the woman had a broken right lung. The news surprised many people. Their lungs really exploded when they were angry!

In life, the lung explosion we often talk about is actually a medical pneumothorax. In layman's terms, the lung is broken and the gas inside reaches the chest. Pleural cavity is composed of pleural wall layer and visceral layer, which is a closed potential cavity without air. Any reason why the pleura is damaged and air enters the pleural cavity is called pneumothorax. At this time, the pressure in pleural cavity rises, even the negative pressure becomes positive pressure, which makes the lungs compressed, and the blood flow of venous return to the heart is blocked, resulting in different degrees of pulmonary and cardiac dysfunction.

Pneumothorax is clinically divided into artificial pneumothorax, traumatic pneumothorax and spontaneous pneumothorax. Spontaneous pneumothorax is the most common pneumothorax type. According to the rupture of visceral pleura and its influence on pleural pressure, spontaneous pneumothorax can be divided into three categories, namely closed spontaneous pneumothorax, open spontaneous pneumothorax and tension spontaneous pneumothorax. Among them, spontaneous pneumothorax is mostly caused by severe exercise, emotional excitement (quarrel, loud noise), chest trauma, thoracic puncture and other injuries to visceral pleura. Patients with simple pneumothorax, because of their small size, can absorb a small amount of gas by themselves, and the symptoms are mostly mild or asymptomatic, so some people will feel chest discomfort when they are angry or stingy, but they will not "explode"; But like the lady mentioned at the beginning, if it is tension pneumothorax, she needs to go to the hospital for exhaust treatment to save her life.