INTRODUCTION: Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) that
require hospital admission have a major impact on the progression of disease and generate …

… In the control group, with pressures of 0-2 cmH2O CPAP, the increase in the provocative
concentration of methacholine causing a 20% fall in forced expiratory volume in 1 s (PC20) was …

The aim of this study was to identify a multivariate model to predict poor outcomes after
admission for exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We performed a …

… to assess the patient’s experience with the provision of care … designed to assess the patient’s
experience with HRT. However… Today, it is possible to evaluate a patient’s perception of the …

… Correlation between quantitative variables was analyzed with Pearson’sr for parametric
ones and Spearman’s rho for nonparametric ones. The significance value was set in all the …

… The Student’s t test was used to compare quantitative variables in the case of normal
distribution and the Mann–Whitney U test was used in non-normal distributions. To compare …

Introduction Since exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) cause
both a great impact on the progression of the disease and generate high health expenditures, …

Background Bronchial hypersecretion is a poorly studied symptom in asthma. The aim of
the study was to determine the specific characteristics of asthmatics with bronchial …

Oxygen therapy, like all technology-based treatments, is continuously evolving. There are
no doubts as to its effectiveness in the treatment of acute and respiratory failure in different …

BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) places a huge economic
burden on healthcare systems, especially patients with frequent exacerbations and co-…