The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) and the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) announced today the release of Prevention of Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: ...

According to a meta-analysis, long-term macrolide therapy at low doses could reduce acute exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Long-term macrolide therapy at low doses ...

Imaging and clinical characteristics reach high diagnostic efficacy when they are used to identify frequent acute exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). A mix of ...

Asthma is a heterogeneous disease more appropriately seen as a syndrome rather than a single pathologic entity. Although it can remain quiescent for extended time periods, the inflammatory and ...

The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) has released an updated clinical practice guideline on the management of ...

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who have higher levels of HbA1c are at increased risk for hospital admission for acute exacerbations. Patients with chronic obstructive ...

AECOPD is associated with a significant worsening of respiratory symptoms that requires additional therapy. Several studies have indicated that AECOPD increases mortality, morbidity, and overall ...

§ Studies in which clinical cure rate was measured; clinical success rate was analyzed in the majority of the studies. A: Amoxicillin; AC: Amoxicillin and ...

The systematic database search resulted in 1,417 documents, and the supplemental search in the guideline databases in 873 documents. Further, 10 documents were retrieved from the websites of national ...

Pooled data from three key studies confirms that OFEV® slows disease progression by approximately 50% as measured by decline in forced vital capacity (FVC)*1-8 The pooled analysis also demonstrated ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Experiencing an acute COPD exacerbation raised the risk for acute cardiovascular events, such as a stroke or ...