University of Alabama at Birmingham-led researchers have refined and validated a new framework for diagnosing chronic ...

Current recommendations for diagnosis of COPD in patients with respiratory symptoms require detection of airflow obstruction ...

Incorporating chest CT imaging and respiratory symptoms into the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnostic ...

The results of this review of response to treatment forms part of the diagnostic ... oxygen rather than the criteria for deciding who needs oxygen therapy. Exacerbations are now recognised as key ...

This study evaluated the potential impact of starting LTOT on acute exacerbation and hospital burden in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial ... and not fulfilling ...

dDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), University Medical ... 10 could contribute to future asthma diagnostic criteria. When clinic ...

There is no single test for COPD. The diagnosis is based on symptoms, a physical exam, and diagnostic test results. When you visit the doctor, it may help to bring a list of your symptoms and when ...

In a phase 3, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, patients with COPD, a history of exacerbations ... were moderate or severe exacerbation as assessed in a time-to-first-event ...