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Causes of death in COPD patients in primary care setting - 6 years follow-up
Conclusions: More than 20% of COPD pts died during six years follow-up in single primary care practice. Main reasons of death were: respiratory failure, heart attack, stroke and lung cancer (together 76.7%). Patients who died were older, had lower FEV1 (more than 30% of them had severe or very severe obstruction) and higher MRC score.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - December 23, 2014 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Plywaczewski, R., Maciejewski, J., Bednarek, M., Zielinski, J., Sliwinski, P. Tags: 6.1 Epidemiology Source Type: research

Annual budgetary impact of varenicline as part of a smoking cessation strategy in Greece
Conclusions: Varenicline reimbursement may represent a balanced strategy from a budget impact perspective in Greece even taking into account hospital resource utilization only.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - October 30, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Katsaounou, P., Bilitou, A., Tsekouras, V. Tags: 6.3 Tobacco, Smoking Control and Health Education Source Type: research

LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT: Study to understand mortality and morbidIty in COPD (SUMMIT)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is recognized as having significant systemic manifestations associated with increased mortality and morbidity (Agusti, Proc Am Thorac Soc 2005;2:367-70), in particular cardiovascular (CV) disease. More patients with moderate COPD die from lung cancer and CV diseases than from COPD (Calverley, N Engl J Med 2007;356:775-89).Post-hoc analyses from the TORCH study suggest an inhaled corticosteroid/long acting beta2 agonist (ICS/LABA) combination may reduce mortality and CV events (e.g. acute coronary syndrome [ACS] and stroke) in patients with moderate COPD (≥50% predicted FEV1) ...
Source: European Respiratory Journal - October 30, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Vestbo, J., Anderson, J., Brook, R. D., Calverley, P., Celli, B., Crim, C., Martinez, F., Yates, J., Newby, D. Tags: 1.1 Clinical Problems Source Type: research

Characteristics of patients treated with nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) prescribed during hospitalization
Conclusions: The follow-up after discharge in specialized units of tobacco cessation is very low, yet the efficacy of the treatment per year was high.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 20, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Perez Morales, M., Espana Dominguez, C., Morales Gonzalez, M., Munoz Ramirez, I., Merino Sanchez, M., Arnedillo Munoz, A. Tags: Tobacco, smoking control and health educ. Source Type: research

Assessment of public awareness on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Slovenia
ConclusionsPublic awareness and knowledge about COPD is low and COPD is not considered as relevant public health problem. Strategies to inform and educate Slovenian public about COPD are urgently needed.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - December 23, 2014 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Farkas, J., Lainscak, M. Tags: 1.6 General Practice and Primary Care Source Type: research

Characteristics and prognosis of never smokers with asthma in the general population
Conclusions: Never smokers with asthma were different with increased risk of exacerbations of asthma and COPD, but not pneumonias, lung cancer, cardiovascular comorbidities, or all-cause mortality. Smoking was the main explanation of poor prognosis in asthma.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - October 30, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Colak, Y., Afzal, S., Nordestgaard, B., Lange, P. Tags: 6.1 Epidemiology Source Type: research

Change in cardiorespiratory fitness after lung resection is not related to the amount of lung tissue removed
Conclusion: The reduction in VO2peak following lung cancer surgery was 20±16%. However, this reduction cannot be explained by the loss of lung tissue, but appears to be caused by a decrease in the patients' cardiac function.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - October 30, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Edvardsen, E., Anderssen, S. A., Borchsenius, F., Skjonsberg, O. H. Tags: 11.1 Lung Cancer Source Type: research

Comparative study about perception of tobacco package disease risk warning and aware COPD among intergenerational/institutional
Conclusion: The results showed that the regardless of age and institutions, imbalance was observed. In addition, health harm of smoke, despite the knowledge of package warning ratio was not unified. This was speculated that the elderly from the youth in Japan were not exposed to anti-tobacco msg and/or were not taught about the harmful. Moreover, we considered important that all risk perceptions will be uniform. Therefore we should do more educate and precaution of Smoking and COPD.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - October 30, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Uno, T. Tags: 6.3 Tobacco, Smoking Control and Health Education Source Type: research

The prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Sri Lanka:outcome of the BOLD study
Conclusion: The prevalence of COPD in Sri Lankan adults is similar to global and regional prevalences.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - December 6, 2017 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Amarasiri, L., Gunasinghe, W., Sadikeen, A., Fernando, A., Madegedara, D., Wickramasinghe, R., Gunasekera, K. Tags: Epidemiology Source Type: research

Late Breaking Abstract - Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), blood eosinophils (EOS), and FEV1 decline in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in a large UK primary healthcare setting
Conclusions: Regardless of blood EOS level, ICS-containing medication is associated with slower rates of FEV1 decline in COPD patients.Funding: GSK study 208602
Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 19, 2018 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Whittaker, H., Mullerova, H., Jarvis, D., Barnes, N., Jones, P., Compton, C., Kiddle, S., Quint, J. Tags: Epidemiology Source Type: research

Black pleural effusion as the presenting feature of lung cancer.
Conclusion: In the present case, the black stain most likely results from intrapleural haemolysis following haemorrhage. Pleural fluid bilirubin may be useful in evaluating pleural effusion, especially if black.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 19, 2018 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Fernandes, V., Alfaro, T. M., Cruz, C., Cordeiro, C. R. Tags: Clinical Problems Source Type: research

Hypercoagulation as the main cause of death in COPD
Conclusion: In the literature there are many data on the main causes of death for patients with COPD, such as respiratory failure, lung cancer, pulmonary thromboembolism, but due to the high comorbidity of COPD with cardiovascular pathology, and the mechanism of mutual complications of these nosologies, according to our research, today the main causes of death for patients with COPD are cardiovascular accidents caused by hypercoagulation.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 20, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Abduganieva, E., Artikov, D., Liverko, I. Tags: Monitoring airway disease Source Type: research

Local incidence and outcomes of patients with pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum in COVID-19
Conclusions: Inpatient incidence of PTX and PM is 0.98%. Survival is lower (54.5%) but difficult to compare in the presence of frailty and co-morbidities.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 25, 2021 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Jackson, K., Aujayeb, A., Aujayeb, A. Tags: Clinical problems Source Type: research

Air leak in Covid 19: experience from a DGH in the UK
Conclusions: Inpatient incidence of PTX and PM is still approximately 1%. Survival is better as overall Covid19 survival improves(direct mortality from air leak approx. 21 %) with mortality due to other factors rather than the air leak.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - December 1, 2022 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Aujayeb, A. Tags: 02.01 - Acute critical care Source Type: research

Ultrasound guided(USG) trucut biopsy of the pleura, lymph nodes and chest wall/subcutaneous lesions performed by respiratory physicians
Conclusion: Trained respiratory physician are able to safely run US guided biopsy service. This would increase capacity, reduce the diagnostic delays and obviate the need for invasive procedures. Our diagnostic accuracy is similar to previous studies performed.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - December 1, 2022 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Abdullah, Q., Iftikhar, S., Abimusa, A., Ganaie, M., Khan, S., Haris, M. Tags: 14.03 - Ultrasound Source Type: research

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