Atelectasis in sleep apnoea patients is frequently associated with sleep disorders and the consequent severe reduction of lung expansion. What happens is that the deep breaths do not bring in enough air into the body. It is because they are too short. They are also not effective whereby the body gets enough air. Also, the person may have very strong difficulty breathing. It may be suffocative or like he is not breathing at all.
There are some people who not only have pain in their chest but also have a sense of emptiness or the fact that they cannot breathe normally. This return to a higher scale of chest pain is made worse by the spontaneous fluctuations, and the symptoms increase most during sleep sporadically.
Lung collapse, a condition affecting those patients whose lungs do not reach the standard size and shape, is the primary reason why the affected lung gets fully inflated only when alveoli are filled. The lungs and alveoli can also collapse. As a result, the volume decreases, and the respiration system needs to adapt to the new conditions by taking shallower, more frequent breaths.
