Active clinical trials for "Lung Diseases"

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a highly prevalent pulmonary disease providing major morbidity and mortality. Bronchial obstruction is the cornerstone in assessment of the disease whereas associated pulmonary vascular disease remains poorly known. Improving knowledge on pulmonary vascular adaptive skills in COPD patients could allow for better understanding disease exacerbations, evolution towards chronic pulmonary hypertension (PH) and therapeutics to be offered to the patients. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an innovative and non-invasive tool capable of pulmonary vascular evaluation. This work aims at identifying pulmonary vascular impairment in COPD patients using functional MRI.

Frailty is closely linked to the success of lung transplantations (LTx) (1,2). Studies have shown that frailty causes a diminished physical performance in candidates for LTx and an increased 30 day rate of re-hospitalization after surgery. Furthermore, frailty is associated with a higher one-year-mortality rate after LTx in frail compared to non-frail patients (1,3,4). Some evidence that frailty in LTx-candidates can be decreased by a suitable rehabilitation program suggests that improving the frailty status in post-LTx patients can be a further strategy to contribute to an overall success in LTx. However, at the moment these possible benefits are not investigated yet. Therefore the aim of this study is to observe the effect of a three-week inpatient rehabilitation on frailty in patients after LTx.

A prospective, multicenter study including a cross-section validation to define sensitivity and specificity of CAPTURE to identify previously undiagnosed patients with clinically significant Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), and its impact on clinical care across a broad range of primary care settings in a cluster randomized controlled clinical trial.

This is a prospective multicenter cohort study which includes all consecutive COPD patients who come for a visit in one the participating pneumologist. They will have to do a sputum and to complete some questionnaries. Questionnaries will be redone by phone after 1 and 3 months and during the visit after 6 months. We will correlate aspergillus presence in sputum with quality of life (QoL), and COPD symptoms evaluated by questionnaires.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a disease with a very high morbidity and mortality rate. When the lung function drops lower and lower, patients will bear great affliction physically and mentally. How to improve the quality of life in patients with COPD is a hot topic in the study of COPD now. Baduanjin, as one of the traditional Chinese qigong exercises, has the features of generous stretch, soft consistency, dynamic but static, which is an appropriate movement pattern for COPD patients.

For patients admitted to the medical ward, it is often difficult to predict if their clinical condition will deteriorate, however subtle changes in vital signs are usually present 8 to 24 hours before a life-threatening event such as respiratory failure leading to ICU admission, or unanticipated cardiac arrest. Such adverse trends in clinical observations can be missed, misinterpreted or not appreciated as urgent. New continuous and wearable 27/7 clinical vital parameter monitoring systems offer a unique possibility to identify clinical deterioration before patients condition progress beyond the point-of-no-return, where adverse events are inevitable. As part of the WARD-COPD project, this validation study aim to assess the accuracy of physiologic parameters derived from standard and wireless patient monitors

With one of the highest incidences of lung disease deaths in the nation, there is great need for home end-of-life palliative care in the rural, disadvantaged communities of West Virginia. The aims of this proposed study are to: (1) pilot test the nursing care intervention with patients and family members managing home supportive EOLPC for rare advanced lung disease and (2) collect research data to report in the NIH resubmission and future trials.

A cross-sectional, observational study of EBC H2O2 levels, as measured by a novel device, 'Inflammacheck™', and other markers of disease severity and symptom control in patients with Asthma and COPD and volunteers with no history of lung disease.

The serum levels of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9), CA125 are often increased in interstitial lung disease patients. This study was undertaken to investigate the source of these serum tumor markers.

The purpose of this study is to compare to nasal and buccal oxygen administration in patients undergoing Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration .