These are also stages of a single disease process with the same pathological factor called obliterative vascular disease of the pulmonary arterial and the bronchial systems. 

Degenerative lung disease patients are experiencing suppressed breath sounds, progressive dyspnea and restricted respiratory movement.  Complications of this type of disease are cor pulmonale, bronchiolar obstruction and bronchopasm.  These are not etiological factors contrary to what most people say but are mere complications of degenerative lung disease.  The constant change of obliterative vascular is due to smoking.  This is the same with those changes that also takes place in Buerger’s disease. 

Patients who are experiencing the vanishing lung disease are said to be heavy smokers.  People who are heavily exposed to heavy smokers are affected as well. Up until now, medical institutions have only bestowed provisional symptomatic liberation and have not rectified the cycle of pulmonary degenerative disease.  On the other hand, surgical administration have looked for ways which aspires at the promotion of systematic collateral circulation, the improvement of ventilation, the lowering of pulmonary hypertension and the increasing of alveolar vascular channels.

Some patients who are undergoing degenerative lung problems have limited expiratory excursions.  To allow more air for the remaining normal lung, segmental or lobar resection of stretched cysts is done.  This is the process of removing the air-robbing dead space.

The clinical results of patients who have undergone surgery varies depending on the amount of lung obliteration that has taken place. 

Clinical results in surgically treated patients depend upon the amount of lung destruction that has taken place. These results range from slight to dramatic improvement.

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