Active clinical trials for "Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive"

The IPCRG & Teesside University have searched the internet for video self management content for people living with COPD. Resources were reviewed by healthcare professionals and developed into a digital magazine to support people living with chronic obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The aims of this study are to evaluate the use of the digital magazine format with video self-management content from an end user perspective, including what characteristics a good video resource should have what information is important to people with COPD to include in videos and digital magazines, the useability of a digital magazine format Explore the opinions, experiences and preferences of people living with COPD for accessing online self-management content including barriers and facilitators for accessing online self-management video content

This study determines whether quercetin supplementation reduces the inflammation and oxidative stress markers in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It is small study with 8 subjects receiving quercetin 1000 mg/day, 8 patients receiving 500 mg/day and 4 subjects receive placebo.

General Objective: To compare the prognostic value of the FODE scale for COPD exacerbations, where the fat-free mass index (FFMI) will be measured instead of the body mass index (BMI) in the BODE scale. Specific objectives: to describe the nutritional status of COPD patients according by the GesEPOC and GOLD phenotypes; to compare the mortality prognostic value of FODE with BODE; to compare the exacerbations and mortality prognostic value of the BODCAT scale, which includes the CAT questionnaire instead of the six-minute walking test (6MWT), with BODE; to compare the mortality prognostic value of the FODE and FODEx scales, where the BMI and the 6MWT will be substituted by the FFMI and the severe exacerbations in the previous year, respectively, with BODE and BODEx. Methods: prospective, with no intervention besides the recommendations of COPD clinical guidelines, where patients will be allocated into three parallel and open groups according to their forced expiratory flow in the first second (FEV1) in the fashion FEV1 < 30%: FEV1 30-50% : FEV1 > 50%, and will be followed for at least two years. FFMI will be measured using bioelectrical impedance analysis. Exacerbations and mortality will be recorded during follow-up to evaluate the prognostic value of the FODE scale, which hypothetically will increase in 10% the prognostic value of the BODE scale.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the accuracy of respiratory and breathing patterns generated through impedance changes generated by a patch-type electrocardiogram device (HiCardi+ wearable patch device, Mezoo Co., Ltd.), targeting patients undergoing pulmonary function testing and ventilator application.

Targeted lung denervation (TLD) with the Ryme Medical Lung Denervation System in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - Ryme Medical TLD Pilot Study

Chronicle obstructive pulmonary disease is a worldwide cause of mortality and morbidity. This systemic disease progressively leads to dyspnea, muscle wasting and exercise capacity impairment. Pulmonary rehabilitation is a cornerstone in the management of these systemic effects. Unfortunately, access to pulmonary rehabilitation is limited for many people who would benefit from it, primarily because of a lack of pulmonary rehabilitation and assessment centers. Optimal assessment should include cardiopulmonary exercise testing to determine both the optimal training settings as well as any cardiopulmonary contraindications to pulmonary rehabilitation. However, this is not available in most centers and when it is, consultations are limited. Therefore, pulmonary rehabilitation is often delayed for several weeks and patients can lose motivation. In order to promote pulmonary rehabilitation, the incremental cardiopulmonary exercise testing could be replaced by field tests to individualize pulmonary rehabilitation prescription. The 6-minute stepper test is a new field tool. Its sensitivity and reproducibility have previously been reported in patients with chronicle obstructive pulmonary disease. It is easy to set up in the clinical setting and could be used to individualize pulmonary rehabilitation. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a prediction equation to set rehabilitation intensity for patients with severe to very severe chronicle obstructive pulmonary disease attending pulmonary rehabilitation, with the use of a simple, readily available field test. Therefore the investigators sought to determine, if it exists, a relationship between the plateau heart rate from the first and last 3 minutes of the 6-minute stepper test and the heart rate from the first ventilatory threshold from the cardiopulmonary exercise testing in order to individualize pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with severe to very severe chronicle obstructive pulmonary disease.

Aim of this multicenter prospective cohort study is the evaluation of the multidimensional qualities of dyspnea in a number of diseases using the Multidimensional Dyspnea Profile (Banzett et al, ERJ 2015).

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease characterized by respiratory problems and poor airflow with dyspnea and cough being the main symptoms. Acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) are the most important events for patients with COPD that have a negative impact on patients´ quality of life, accelerate disease progression, and can result in hospital admissions and death. It is of major clinical importance to determine predictors of an AECOPD and to identify patients who are at high risk for developing an acute exacerbation and/or to detect the beginning of or prevent an ongoing acute exacerbation as early as possible. Until now, research in the field of AECOPD has gathered and analyzed data only after manifestation of AECOPD until recovery and most of them used a retrospective study design. Therefore, the aim of this prospective trial is to collect clinical data in patients prior to the first visible clinical signs of an AECOPD to investigate potential early predictors of an AECOPD.

A double-blind, randomised controlled trial in participants with COPD to assess the efficacy of proactive treatment of cardiac risk in people with COPD. We hypothesise that treating known and undiagnosed CVD in COPD participants will improve both cardiac and respiratory outcomes.

Study is conducted to assess the prevalence and structure of comorbidity among patients undergoing abdominal surgery and produce the stratification of the risk of postoperative complications by identifying independent predictors for its development.