COPD

Certified respiratory educators helped a COPD intervention group of patients achieve improved symptom results.

A comparison of hospitalized COPD patients treated with either short-acting or long-acting bronchodilator showed the latter had no influence on 30-day readmission rates.

Duaklier Pressair is a is a fixed-dose combination of the long-acting muscarinic antagonist aclidinium and the long-acting beta agonist formoterol.

The LAMA/LABA combination therapy was shown to reduce one-year exacerbation rates while not increasing patient risk of cardiovascular events.

New research shows the public increasingly sees e-cigarettes as equally unhealthy compared to cigarettes—but that’s not the whole picture.

Little is known on the underlying pulmonary arterial lesions in patients with this phenotype of COPD.

The therapy was further assessed in asthmatic patients with comorbid chronic rhinosinusitis and with or without nasal polyposis.

Asthma risk and lung disease development can occur as easily and as frequently with smoking alternatives as it does with combustible cigarettes.

A new cohort from the Cleveland Clinic shows that the index could allow ICU clinicians to know whether a patient needs prone positioning or ECMO.

Flu vaccination reduced influenza-related hospitalizations by 38% among patients with COPD.

UAB investigators sought to learn if neutrophil elastase exists in an exosomal form, and whether these exosomes could potentially bypass alpha1-antitrypsin inhibition to contribute to COPD.

About 1 in 7 heart failure patients have COPD, which can lead to a 30% increase in risk of hospitalization and death.

Tobacco farm region physicians face the challenges of culture, law, and education in improving cessation.

About half of all patients with COPD suffer from serious adverse events following a hospital discharge, yet physicians cannot accurately distinguish which are at risk.

Some of the most common symptoms of COPD drive anxiety in its patients. An England-based study sought out a cost-effective response.

With no distinctive definition for what constitutes asthma-COPD overlap, clinicians are advising both diseases become diagnosed and treated differently.

Living in rural areas and coal burning for heat were found to be risk factors for developing COPD.

Pulmonary rehab is a program of exercise and education that is proven to increase exercise capacity, reduce symptoms, and elevate quality of life for patients, and is recommended in all major professional society guidelines in the US, Europe, and Canada.

The Spiration Valve System treats emphysema by blocking air from entering diseased areas of the lung.