Oxygen therapy can help people with COPD breathe better and do daily activities with less difficulty. There are three types of oxygen therapy: compressed oxygen cylinders, liquid oxygen, and oxygen ...

Among patients with blood eosinophil counts greater than or equal to 150 cells/µL, the reduction in the annual rate of moderate to severe COPD exacerbations was found to be nominally significant. The ...

Effective treatment often requires you to take medications to better manage symptoms or stop taking medications if a doctor advises that you no longer need them. Finding the right dosages and ...

The findings provide further support of recommendations in the clinical guidelines to favor one therapy over the other. Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) being treated with ...

Triple therapy in COPD significantly improves lung function vs LAMA monotherapy, LABA/LAMA, and ICS/LABA, although evidence showing this is often low quality. Triple therapy is likely effective, safe, ...

AJMC®: How is COPD definitively diagnosed in clinical practice, and how does this disease create a clinical burden on patients and caregivers? Dr Rali: COPD diagnosis requires both clinical context ...

Triple therapy for COPD, vs ICS/LABA therapy, was independently associated with ischemic heart disease, heart failure, arrhythmia, and atrial fibrillation/flutter. Cardiovascular events in patients ...

Leveraging lung cancer screening can improve chronic obstructive pulmonary disease detection and intervention in underserved populations.

Dual therapy for pulmonary hypertension before balloon pulmonary angioplasty is linked to fewer thoracic complications than monotherapy in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.