ALLMedicine™ Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Center

Jun 29th, 2022 - Patients with mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) account for more than half of the total COPD population but are often undiagnosed and sparsely studied. This real-world, longitudinal study compared the socioeconomic burden, clinical...

Jun 29th, 2022 - To define a set of proposals that would improve the current management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) within the Spanish National Healthcare System (SNHS) from a comprehensive multidisciplinary perspective and to assess the impact...

Jun 29th, 2022 - Mitochondrial dysfunction has been reported in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Transfer of mitochondria from mesenchymal stem cells to airway smooth muscle cells (ASMCs) can attenuate oxidative stress-induced mitochondrial damage. It...

Jun 29th, 2022 - Virtual wards (VWs) include patient assessment in their homes by health care personnel and offer ongoing assessment and case management via home, telephone, and/or clinic visits. The association between VWs and patient outcomes during the transiti...

Jun 28th, 2022 - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a health problem that results in death, commonly due to the development of pulmonary hypertension (PH). Here, by utilizing a mouse model of intratracheal elastase-induced emphysema that presents thre...

May 18th, 2022 - SAN FRANCISCO -- For neighborhoods near a major coking operation in Pittsburgh, its shutdown at the end of 2015 was followed by markedly lower rates of respiratory disease hospitalizations, researchers reported here. Inpatient admissions for ch...

May 11th, 2022 - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an irreversible reduction of airflow in the lungs. Progression to severe disease can prevent participation in normal activities because of deterioration of lung function. In 2020 it was estimated tha...

Apr 6th, 2021 - Antimicrobial overuse is a major health care issue that contributes to antibiotic resistance. Such overuse includes unnecessarily long durations of antibiotic therapy in patients with common bacterial infections, such as acute bronchitis with chro...

Dec 11th, 2020 - Long-term mechanical ventilation is a well-established treatment for chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure (CHRF). It is aimed at improving CHRF-related symptoms, health-related quality of life, survival, and decreasing hospital admissions. In S...

Aug 17th, 2020 - Background: Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is used for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic hypercapnia. However, evidence for clinical efficacy and optimal management of therapy is limited.Target Audience: Patient...

Jun 24th, 2022 - This study is designed to evaluate genetic mechanisms of lung disease by surveying polymorphic genes involved in respiratory function and examining gene expression in the lung cells of individuals with pulmonary disease (e.g., alpha 1-antitrypsin ...

Jun 24th, 2022 - This study will be a prospective, longitudinal, observational, single-center, exploratory, natural history study to collect samples and data that will enable prospective explorations of the interaction between environmental exposures and disease p...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic respiratory disease characterized by incomplete reversible airflow limitation, small airway obstruction and alveolar structural damage. About 3 million patients die from COPD every year aro...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - Background Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is an inflammatory disease of the lungs, which is most commonly caused by smoking. It is characterized as not fully reversible airflow limitation, chronic cough and dyspnoea. Being the fourth...

Jun 23rd, 2022 - Rationale and background Roflumilast is licensed (i) for maintenance treatment of severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (FEV1 post-bronchodilator less than 50% predicted) associated with chronic bronchitis (CB) in adult patients with...

Jun 29th, 2022 - Adding to the debate over the value of hospital readmission rates, a new study links the data to higher rates of adverse events in patients treated for pneumonia. For each interquartile range increase in the readmission rate in a sample of 46,047 ...

Jun 27th, 2022 - A 70-year-old man with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), treated with inhalers, presents to his pulmonologist with worsening shortness of breath which he thinks is related to COPD. He has noted intermittent palpitations. H...

Jun 22nd, 2022 - Treatment with an interleukin-6 neutralizing antibody significantly reduced airway mucus hypersecretion (AMH) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), based on data from human and mouse cells in a human organoid model. AMH plays a large pa...

Jun 21st, 2022 - Treatment with an interleukin-6 neutralizing antibody significantly reduced airway mucus hypersecretion (AMH) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), based on data from human and mouse cells in a human organoid model. AMH plays a large pa.

Jun 16th, 2022 - High levels of eosinophils had a protective effect for individuals who experienced acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, based on data from nearly 1,000 patients. Several blood biomarkers are under investigation for links t.