Active clinical trials for "Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive"

High flow nasal cannula (HFNC) has been shown to improve oxygenation and facilitate weaning in hypoxemia patients. Some clinical studies show the benefits of using HFNC in COPD patients, including reducing dead space and work of breathing. However, no clinical study has been to investigate the value of HFNC in weaning COPD patients from invasive ventilation. Thus, we proposed a randomized controlled trial to compare the use of HFNC and noninvasive ventilation (NIV) in weaning COPD.

Prospective, open-label, parallel-group, 52-week trial comparing varenicline in combination with behavioral support with one session of behavioral support alone. Eligible patients were smokers hospitalized due to a) acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or b) bronchial asthma attack, or c) community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The primary outcome was the success rate (%) at week 52. Secondary outcomes were quality of life (QoL) alterations on the domains of the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF36) and investigation of possible predictors for smoking abstinence.

Up tp now, disease activity of COPD patients in their home environment has usually been recorded by questionnaires (e.g. COPD assessment test). Digital multifactorial measurements, via the "mobile COPD Status test" app, offer a new way of displaying disease activity. However, there is no independent study that has examined whether digitally collected parameters correlate with the common used measurement instruments for COPD patients (both in cross-sectional and longitudinal course). The aim of this exploratory study is to investigate the correlation between the mobile COPD Status test (mCST App, KAIA Health) and a conventional collected clinical data set of routine measurements as well as the subjective symptoms and activity perception of COPD patients in their home environment, with and without exacerbation.

The aim of this study is to determine the feasibility of combining a lung sealant with endobronchial valves EBV in managing patients with COPD who are collateral ventilation (CV) positive. This study has two arms; arm 1 is for CV positive participants who will receive the lung sealant and EBV; arm 2 is the CV negative group who will only receive EBV as the standard management.

Morbidity and mortality in COPD result largely of acute exacerbations.The optimization of the respiratory management represents a fundamental challenge for improving prognosis and reducing mortality. While the hospital mortality of patients treated with NIV has decreased over years, and is currently less than 10 %, mortality in patients treated with invasive ventilation remains higher than 25%. To improve the prognosis of patients with acute exacerbation of COPD requiring invasive mechanical ventilation is therefore a major challenge in terms of morbidity and mortality. Among the means available to achieve this goal, minimally invasive extracorporeal CO2 removal (ECCO2R) seems to be a very promising approach. The investigators hypothesize that the addition of minimally invasive ECCO2R is likely to limit dynamic hyperinflation in COPD patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation for an acute exacerbation, while improving gas exchange.

Symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and high body mass index (BMI) overlap. The investigators are trying to find out if a program proven to help people lose a modest amount of weight and increase their physical activity will improve COPD symptoms for those with a high BMI. The program uses a series of video sessions and self-study handouts focused on healthy eating and increasing physical activity, and encourages participants to monitor their weight, diet, and physical activity for one year. For those who want to, they will be able to work with a health coach to help meet weight and activity goals. We hope that the program will lead to improved exercise tolerance, body weight, dyspnea, generic health-related quality of life, and major cardiovascular risk factors (central obesity by waist circumference, Framingham Risk Score, and blood pressure) through 12 months of follow-up. To be in the study, participants will need to have COPD, high BMI, history of smoking, shortness of breath, and be at least 40 years old.

The primary aim of the study is to investigate whether pelvic floor muscle training or cough-suppression therapy reduces symptoms of urinary incontinence amongst women with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease grade 1-4 (mild to very severe disease).

The overall objective of this study is to evaluate a collaborative self-management intervention in patients with moderate to severe COPD in a primary care population. To achieve this objective the investigators developed a diagnostic and treatment pathway for the management of COPD in primary care that is based on national guidelines and focused on patient self-management. .

This is a Phase IIb, randomized, double blind, chronic dosing (28 days), four period, five treatment, incomplete block, crossover design in subjects with moderate to severe COPD. The overall objective is to demonstrate that the combination of budesonide (BD; PT008) and formoterol fumarate (FF; PT005) in a metered-dose inhaler (MDI); (BFF MDI; PT009) provides benefit on lung function compared with BD MDI in subjects with moderate to severe COPD.

The purpose of this study is to determine if there is a change in the CAT-score after an inpatient rehabilitation of three weeks and if it correlates with other common parameters.