The Role of Computed Tomography in the Phenotyping of COPD Patients

Aswan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: COPD

Treatments: Radiation: CT chest

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05747235

CT in COPD phenotyping

Details and patient eligibility

About

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common, preventable, and treatable disease that is characterized by respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation that is due to airway and/or alveolar abnormalities usually caused by significant exposure to noxious particles or gases. the CT was used for classification of COPD patients into different phenotypes: phenotype A that has minimal emphysema with or without airway disease, phenotype E that has emphysema without airway disease, and finally phenotype M as a mixed form. The investigators aimed to to identify the phenotypes of COPD using radiologic data obtained by computed tomography. Moreover, this study will be designed to answer the questions about possible correlation between pulmonary function parameters and CT.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All stable COPD patients that lastly confirmed to have the disease based on spirometry and past clinical history according to GOLD (2022).
• Age above 18 years.

Exclusion criteria

• COPD patients associated with other chest diseases as collapse
• COPD patients associated with consolidation
• COPD patients unable to perform spirometry