Active clinical trials for "Lung Diseases"

The purpose of this study is to determine if Bipap should assume a standard-of-care role in the management of overlap syndrome.

The purpose of this study is to characterize the safety and efficacy of the AeriSeal System in patients with advanced upper lobe predominant emphysema and significant collateral ventilation as determined by the Chartis System.

Phrase: IV Indication: dyspnea symptom of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) Objective: to evaluate efficacy and safety of tulobuterol patch combined with Tiotropium bromide for relieving dyspnea symptom of COPD Design: a multi-centre randomized parallel blank control study Case number: test group 80, control group 80, totally 160 Site number:7 Study period: 2010.9 - 2011.8

Pulmonary hypertension is frequently present in COPD and it is generally limited to a mild increase in mean pulmonary artery pressure. However some COPD patients are characterized by higher levels of mPAP at rest, fulfilling the definition of moderate or severe PH disproportionate PH . In these patients the elevated pulmonary pressures adversely affect the prognosis.At the present time the evidence for the the use of specific pulmonary vasodilators in the management of these patients are scarce and cannot be recommended.the aim of this study is to evaluate the medium term efficacy and safety of the inhaled prostacyclin stable analog, iloprost in patients with COPD and moderate to severe pulmonary hypertension

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a highly disabling group of conditions including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), acute and chronic interstitial pneumonias, connective tissue diseases and sarcoidosis. People with ILD frequently experience breathlessness on exertion, which limits their ability to undertake daily activities. People with ILD report very poor quality of life due to low levels of physical functioning and vitality, and high levels of breathlessness and fatigue. There are few treatments for ILD and those that are available have limited impact on quality of life. The aim of this study is to assess the effects of Pulmonary Rehabilitation, which consists of specialised exercise training for people with lung disease, on exercise capacity and quality of life in people with ILD. We hypothesis that exercise training will result in reduced dyspnoea, improved exercise tolerance and enhanced quality of life.

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether noninvasive ventilation by nose mask during the night has additional benefits next to pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with severe hypercapnic COPD.

The fixed-dose combination product Budesonide/Glycopyrronium/Formoterol Fumarate Inhalation Aerosol, BGF pMDI and dual combination product Glycopyrronium/Formoterol Fumarate Inhalation Aerosol , GFF pMDI are developed for maintenance treatment for patients with COPD. There are still some unmet medical needs and evidence gaps in COPD therapy, such as could BGF Inhalation Aerosphere reverse the disease progression such like airway-remodelling? Could BGF Inhalation Aerosphere reduce inflammation in small airways? Before differences proven between medication groups, pilot study is needed. This 52 weeks, Single-center, prospective, interventional pilot study could help discovering intervention effect of BGF and GFF on small airways through OCT measurement, which would show outcome of AEROSPHERE™ Delivery Technology on COPD patients.

Humidified High Flow Nasal Cannula (HHFNC), with optional supplemental oxygen delivery, has evolved in recent years with an increasing number of papers that show a better meet with respiratory demand, decrease oxygen dilution, increased Functional Residual Capacity (FRC), dead space washout, more tolerate than Non Invasive Ventilation (NIV) and provide heated and humidified gas. HHFNC is mainly used in intensive care settings or in acute respiratory diseases for the treatment of mild to moderate acute hypoxic respiratory failure and ventilator weaning. The aim of this study is to evaluate, in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in nocturnal NIV, according to the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and American Thoracic Society (ATS) guidelines, whether HHFNC during rehabilitation has an additional effect in increasing the distance in 6 Minute Walking Distance (6MWD) compared to the control group with nocturnal NIV without HHFNC treatment. As secondary objectives, we expect a decrease in Emergency Department (ED) accesses, General Practitioner (GP) unplanned visits, hospitalizations and an improvement of the quality of life and patient satisfaction.

Current antibiotic prescription for patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) is generally based on the Anthonisen criteria in The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (GOLD) guideline, that has a potential risk of antibiotics overuse. The dilemma is to identify patients who are most likely to benefit from antibiotics while avoiding unnecessary antibiotic use. Procalcitonin (PCT), a more sensitive and specific biomarker of bacterial infection than other conventional laboratory tests, has the potential to determine those patients in whom antibiotics would be beneficial. It is unclear whether PCT-guided antibiotic therapy is safe and effective for inpatients with AECOPD. The investigators aim to conduct a 2-arm, multicenter randomized controlled trial in China to determine whether PCT-guided antibiotic therapy will reduce the antibiotic prescription rate for AECOPD without negatively impacting the treatment success rate, compared with the GOLD guideline antibiotic recommendations.

Up to a third of patients who recovered from SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) had a 20% decline in lung function with a long term reduction in exercise capacity and SF-36 health status a year after infection. Similar outcomes are now being reported in COVID-19 patients, with interstitial lung disease (fibrosis) and long term lung function decline being a common feature. Anti-fibrotic monocytes/macrophages are important for the clearance of partially degraded collagen fragments of fibrotic extracellular matrix, in particular fibrillary-type collagen. MON002 is an autologous monocyte product, cultured in vitro prior to intravenous delivery into patients with post-COVID-19 lung fibrosis.