label: Panacinar emphysema
label_lc: panacinar emphysema
description: "Panacinar emphysema involves all portions of the acinus and secondary pulmonary lobule more or less uniformly. It predominates in the lower lobes and is the form of emphysema associated with1-antitrypsin deficiency. CT scans show a generalized decrease of the lung parenchyma with a decrease in the caliber of blood vessels in the affected lung. Severe panacinar emphysema may coexist and merge with severe centrilobular emphysema. The appearance of feature less decreased attenuation may be indistinguishable from severe constrictive obliterative bronchiolitis."