[PDF] Top 20 The clinical and economic impact of exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a cohort of hospitalized patients.

... in the follow-up were analysed from the perspective of the Italian National Health ...i.e. the amount of money the health system reimbursed to providers of ...tions ... See full document

... for the amount of smoking not correlating with the severity of dyspnea could be attributed to the following possible ...many of our patients are from low socio ... See full document

... to the low sample size, as said above, or even due to pathophysiological differences between the two ...diseases. The most effective reversibility of airway obstruction in asthma may justify a ... See full document

... elderly patients with obstructive airway disease have features of both asthma and COPD, termed asthma-COPD overlap syndrome, whose prevalence in Italy was ...2.1% and 4.5% in ... See full document

... in exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary ...AR. The measure- ment of dyspnea: contents, interobserver agreement, and physio- logic correlates of two ... See full document

... art of medical practice focused on the stabilization or reversion of the physiological and psychological effects of the pathogenesis of pulmonary ... See full document

... regardless of sex. In both sexes, there was a general trend of increasing rates until the end of the ...period and was more intense among males. However, in the ... See full document

... with the use of a oxygen concentrator (shown here) which derives oxygen from room ...air. The latter two options improve mobility of people requiring long-term oxygen ...concentrator ... See full document

... Optimisation of the turbine mixer’s performance during the preparations of the sand mix still remains an important issue as this mixer type is now in widespread ...techniques of ... See full document

... Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) pro- gressively affects patients by causing physical con- straints, psychosocial disturbances and an economic ...therapies ... See full document

... information and enhanced quality care are the reasons for the efficient pulmonary rehabilitation ...(47.8%) patients who are chronically-ill and depend on public transport, ... See full document

... 70% of the patients also have renal complications as a result of necrotising glomerulonephritis 48 .... The most common molecular signature of GPA patients is the ... See full document

... characteristics of patients and the frequency of hospital ...importance of exacerbations for COPD course prognosing was reflected in the GOLD, 2011, where ... See full document

... ‘shuttle', and returning was considered another. The distance was delineated by two traffic cones placed half a meter prior to the end of each shuttle in order to avoid forcing patients ... See full document

... composed of more than 40 different types of ...exchange and, for this reason, it could be deined as being composed by alveoli surrounded by a capillary ...Lung disease is one of ... See full document

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... In the present study, however, neither BMI nor FFMI correlated significantly with SGRQ or AQ20 ...scores and BMI ...attributes and SGRQ have been found in patients with COPD ...50 ... See full document

... as the 6MWT (39), we were unable to directly assess maximal oxygen uptake due to equipment ...Moreover, the re- duced number of patients in the LGT group may have influenced the ... See full document

... 43 patients, 25 had successful weaning (58.1%). Patients with high APACHE II score prior to intu- bation was found as associated with weaning ...entubation and weaning are associated with weaning ... See full document

... preparation of the casting process included heating the mould in 70°C, which caused water to ...Next, the mould parts were joined together and filled with an aluminum ...After ... See full document