Introduction: The classification and management of COPD are currently based on a patient-centric approach, emphasising the importance of symptoms and exacerbation history (GOLD-classes). Since COPD patients present hight individual heterogeneity, the treatable traits (TT) strateg [....] » Read More
Nowaday, ubiquitous health system is reshaping the research in the medical domain due to its potential to concurrently overcome the challenges encountered in the traditional healthcare systems. Prediction of exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is consider [....] » Read More
RATIONALE: Risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its disparities associated with air pollution exposures are less clear and warrant more evidence. OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between long-term exposure to air pollution and COPD incidence. METHO [....] » Read More
RATIONALE: Risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its disparities associated with air pollution exposures are less clear and warrant more evidence. OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between long-term exposure to air pollution and COPD incidence. METHO [....] » Read More
Background: There is a paucity of information regarding patients with COPD and hip fracture (HF), one of the most devastating diseases in the elderly. Objective: To explore in a large cohort of HF patients the prevalence of COPD, its clinical profile and impact on hospital out [....] » Read More
Occupational exposures may cause new-onset asthma in a healthy subject, aggravate pre-existing asthma in a symptomatic individual or reactivate asthma in an asymptomatic individual. All these disorders are covered by the term work-related asthma (WRA) or work-attributable asthma, [....] » Read More
Immune eradication of cancer cells is dependent on polymorphisms of HLA class I molecules and antigen-processing machinery (APM) components, of which endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidases 1 and 2 (ERAP1 and ERAP2) are most genetically polymorphic. We compared the distri [....] » Read More
Title : The Role of Patients Education in the Management of Asthma/COPD During COVID Pandemic
Ketevan Jugheli, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia
The results of treatment of patients with asthma / COPD largely depends on the level of the patients` education and the need to use of the recommended management plan, besides the availability of health care services and medicines. The role of the patient's education is impor [....] » Read More
Title : The Role of Patients Education in the Management of Asthma/COPD During COVID Pandemic
Irine Pkhakadze, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia
The results of treatment of patients with asthma / COPD largely depends on the level of the patients` education and the need to use of the recommended management plan, besides the availability of health care services and medicines. The role of the patient's education is impor [....] » Read More
Title : Expanding Access to Pulmonary Rehabilitation by Embedding it in Educational Institutions and Community Centers
Tammie Fournier, Allied Health, New Brunswick Community College, Canada
Globally, COPD impacts approximately 10% of the population and is the third leading cause of death. Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) is a gold standard intervention in the management of COPD developed to slow disease progression, reduce disabling symptoms, and overall improve the qu [....] » Read More
Title : Association between all-cause and cardiovascular mortality and lung function across the full range of distribution: results from HAPIEE cohort study
Tatyana Sarycheva, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Background: Impaired lung function has been established as an independent predictor of mortality but there is less evidence on the mortality risk in persons with preserved lung function. We assessed the pattern of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality across the full distributio [....] » Read More
Title : Expanding Access to Pulmonary Rehabilitation by Embedding it in Educational Institutions and Community Centers
Robyn Palk, Allied Health, New Brunswick Community College, Canada
Globally, COPD impacts approximately 10% of the population and is the third leading cause of death. Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) is a gold standard intervention in the management of COPD developed to slow disease progression, reduce disabling symptoms, and overall improve the qu [....] » Read More
Title : Expanding Access to Pulmonary Rehabilitation by Embedding it in Educational Institutions and Community Centers
Lisa Curtis, Allied Health, New Brunswick Community College, Canada
Globally, COPD impacts approximately 10% of the population and is the third leading cause of death. Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) is a gold standard intervention in the management of COPD developed to slow disease progression, reduce disabling symptoms, and overall improve the qu [....] » Read More
Title : Six pandemics and one conspiracy
Carlos Rivas Echeverria, The SLEEPCARE Clinics, United Kingdom
COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic in 2020, this could be the shortest pandemic in medical history due to the development of vaccines and proper social distancing and containing measurements. Therefore, the main pandemics of the XXI century are obesity, diabetes, hypertension, c [....] » Read More
Title : Distinct changes in endosomal composition promote NLRP3 inflammasome activation
Zhirong Zhang, Université de Strasbourg, France
Inflammasome complexes are pivotal in the innate immune response to pathogens and other danger signals. The NLRP3 inflammasome is activated in response to a broad variety of cellular stressors, including COVID-19 infection. Most of the stimuli act in a potassium efflux-dependent [....] » Read More
Title : Inflammation and immune disorders during COPD in humans
Lyudmyla Kuyun, Bogomolets National Medical University, Ukraine
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a complex progressive lung inflammatory disease accompanied by pathological changes in the large and small airways. COPD presents global concern due to its high mortality and has become the fourth leading cause of death in the world [....] » Read More
Title : Mesencure- A Promising treatment for severe COVID-19 pneumonia
Shadi Hamoud, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel
Since DEC 2019 health authorities all over the world are in continuous combat against the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The disaese was first described in Wuhan, China on DEC 2019, followed by rapid spread all over the world, and caused by the Coronovirus SARS-COV [....] » Read More
Title : Surgical Therapies for Severe Emphysema/COPD
George E Chaux, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, United States
My presentation will focus on the current state of advanced surgical therapies available to treat patients with advanced emphysema/COPD. I will discuss surgical treatment options including bronchoscopic lung volume reduction, surgical lung volume reduction and lung transplantatio [....] » Read More