The Journal Club: Computed Tomography and COPD

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation The Journal Club: Computed Tomography and COPD

2 Frequency of Exacerbations in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: An Analysis of the SPIROMICS Cohort BACKGROUND: Present treatment strategies to stratify exacerbation risk in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) rely on a history of two or more events in the previous year. We aimed to understand year to year variability in exacerbations and factors asso...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation The Journal Club: COPD Exacerbations

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation Journal Club

2 The asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) Bujarski S, Parulekar AD, Sharafkhaneh A, Hanania NA. Curr Allergy Asthma Rep. 2015; 15(3):509. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11882-014-0509-6 Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have traditionally been viewed as distinct clinical entities. Recently, however, much attention has been focused on patients with overlapping features of ...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation Journal Club: Phosphodiesterase-4 Inhibitors

1 Functional respiratory imaging to assess the interaction between systemic roflumilast and inhaled ICS/LABA/LAMA Vos W, Hajian B, De Backer J, et al. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2016;11(1):263-271. doi: http://dx.doi. org/10.2147/COPD.S93830 BACKGROUND: Patients with COPD show a significant reduction of the lobar hyperinflation at the functional residual capacity level in the patients who...

Computed tomography-derived pathological phenotypes in COPD.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is considered to be a complex, multicomponent, heterogeneous disease, the pathology, clinical and functional presentation of which vary greatly between individual patients despite similar degrees of airflow limitation [1]. COPD has therefore been considered to have distinct phenotypes that represent a single or combination of disease attributes that ...