[Autonomic and emotional disorders in chronic obstructive bronchitis]

The clinical picture of chronic obstructive bronchitis (COB) coupled with lung emphysema and diffuse pulmonary fibrosis studied in 198 patients was characterized by the autonomous and emotional syndrome which depended largely on the presence and degree of arterial hypoxemia, abnormality of lung ventilation, the degree of the activity of bronchopulmonary infection. Psychogenias of childhood, psychic traumas, encephalopathy are likely to play a role in the syndrome formation. Somatoautonomic disintegration may promote the development of COB and its progress at the stage of the marked clinical disease manifestations.