Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

Clinicians should consider dosage, body mass index, and exacerbation history while prescribing inhalational corticosteroids to mitigate the risk of pneumonia. Pharmacists should educate patients about the risk of pneumonia while dispensing …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) constitutes a major global health burden and is the third leading cause of death worldwide. A high proportion of patients with COPD have cardiovascular disease, but there is also evidence that COPD is a …

In European countries, nearly 10% of all hospital admissions are related to respiratory diseases, mainly chronic life-threatening diseases such as COPD, pulmonary hypertension, IPF or lung cancer. The contribution of blood vessels and angiogenesis …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most prevalent comorbidities among patients with HF, especially in HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) [ 1 ]. Moreover, in patients where HF and COPD coexist, the prevalence of …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) constitutes a major global health burden and is the third leading cause of death worldwide. A high proportion of patients with COPD have cardiovascular disease, but there is also evidence that COPD is a …

Primary infection by the varicella-zoster virus leads to childhood varicella (chickenpox) in the majority of the population. The virus remains dormant in the dorsal root ganglia, and can be reactivated later in life, causing herpes zoster (HZ) [ 1 …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a clinical syndrome resulting from a complex, cumulative and dynamic gene-environment interaction over lifetime [ 1 ]. The disease cannot be cured, and only a limited symptom control can be achieved [ …2

Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) is a common cause for emergency department (ED) visits. Still, large scale studies that assess the management of AECOPD in the ED are limited. Our aim was to evaluate treatment …