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A college student is training for a marathon in the mountains. One day, she experiences a sharp pain and suddenly becomes short of breath. At the emergency room, chest x-ray reveals a spontaneous pneumothorax.
 
  The client asks the nurse to explain why this happened. The nurse states, For unknown reasons, you lose intrapleural negative pressure.
  A) You must have experienced a forced expiration against a closed glottis to cause the lung to deflate.
  B) This means your lungs collapsed and expelled its air when you lose negative pressure.
  C) You must have coughed too forcibly and your air sacs burst.
  D) You must have a genetic anomaly causing weakened alveolar sacs to rupture.
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