Effectiveness of home-based preoperative pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD patients undergoing lung cancer resection.

CONCLUSIONS: Our simple and low-cost rehabilitation program could improve preoperative clinical function in patients with mild to moderate COPD undergoing lobectomy and reduce postoperative pulmonary complications. All patients should be motivated to complete at least 3 rehabilitation sessions per week in order to obtain significant clinical benefits. Our preliminary results should be confirmed by larger prospective studies. PMID: 32090715 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32090715?dopt=Abstract

Source: Tumori - February 26, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Tumori Source Type: research