Rehabilitation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Patients With Emphysema

Villa Pineta Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Emphysema

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01305668

VP-01-2011

Details and patient eligibility

About

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease has two heterogeneous conditions (chronic bronchitis and pulmonary emphysema phenotypes) with a different clinical presentation.

The phenotype evaluation in COPD patient (trough clinical, functional and radiographic parameters) could influence final results in pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management of the disease.

The aim of our study is to investigate whether COPD patients with different disease phenotype (chronic bronchitis versus pulmonary emphysema) have a different response to PR.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• COPD disease with any functional grade
• Adherence to participate to a pulmonary rehabilitation program

Exclusion criteria

• Recent acute exacerbation (4 weeks preceding enrollment)
• Acute severe concomitant cardiovascular diseases
• Concomitant neoplastic diseases
• NO-Adherence to participate to a pulmonary rehabilitation program

Trial design

100 participants in 2 patient groups

Emphysema phenotype

No-Emphysema phenotype