What is the difference between copd and emphysema?

Clinic vrs Pathol. : Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the name given to a not reversable clinical condition when the patient experiences difficulty to breathe with wheezing, ronchi, chronic cough. Emphysema is a pathological diagnosis when there is prove of rupture of septums between alveoli , causing large pockets of alveoli together (bullas of air). Most if not all patients c emphysema have copd.

Category...: COPD stands for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Many diseases are types of COPD and emphysema is one type of copd. COPD is a more general category!

Not much: COPD is more of a physiologic term, while emphysema refers to end-stage changes of the lungs, more anatomically. Both terms are often used interchangeably.