Article
COPD updates: what's new in pathophysiology and management?
Expert review of respiratory medicine - 1 Aug 2013
Noujeim Carlos, Bou-Khalil Pierre
Abstract excerpt
The historic perspective that used to define chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has changed. As reviewed in this article, it is based on a better understanding of the underlying inflammatory airflow obstruction and a multidimensional classification, which mostly targets a subgroup called 'frequent exacerbators'. Clinical and radioimaging predictors are the stamina for an aggressive therapeutic approach. A...
Topics
- Disease Progression
- Exercise Tolerance
- Humans
- Lung
- Patient Selection
- Phenotype
- Practice Guidelines as Topic
- Predictive Value of Tests
- Prevalence
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- Respiratory Function Tests