Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Across cohorts of patients with COPD, withdrawing inhaled corticosteroids from triple therapy resulted in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with COPD and mucus plugs observed on both a baseline and 5-year follow-up CT scan vs. no mucus plugs ...

"Physicians should feel more confident in following the recent guideline recommendations both to use race-neutral reference equations and to use z scores for assessing severity…Together, these changes ...

Hypercapnic patients were best separated from normocapnic patients using thresholds for FVC% of 56% predicted and 33% predicted for FEV1%. Hypercapnia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

Preserved ratio impaired spirometry (PRISm) was associated with the development of airway obstruction over 10 years of follow-up, independent of smoking habits, with comparable odds for disease ...

A recent study published in the journal of Radiology showed that dynamic chest radiography (DCR) may serve as an effective ...

What are pulmonary function tests? Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are tests of lung function. They are intended to evaluate and monitor chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is ...

Further tiotropium + olodaterol FDC data on patient outcomes such as quality of life are due to report later this year SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For media outside of the US, the UK & Canada only ...

Forest and Almirall Announce Positive Results from the ACCORD COPD I Phase III Study of aclidinium bromide in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) NEW YORK & BARCELONA, Spain, Jan 07, 2010 ...

Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) is a treatment for end-stage lung disease caused by emphysema. Emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that causes shortness of breath ...