During and after an exacerbation, mental recovery involves taking care of both your physical and mental health. Resting, ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a condition that affects more than 14 million U.S. adults, is marked by damage ...

While you may be able to manage this lung condition with medications and lifestyle changes, you might experience periods when your COPD symptoms worsen. These are known as exacerbations or flare-ups.

So a COPD exacerbation is a period where people with COPD will notice an acute deterioration in their symptoms. And these will probably last a few days, and they may experience shortness of breath ...

Patients with acute COPD exacerbations are seen frequently in ... Treatment failures were defined as unchanged or worsening symptoms requiring additional treatment during the follow up period.

“Emphysema makes it hard to breathe air out of your lungs as it affects the tiny air sacs at the end of the airways where oxygen is taken up into the bloodstream. The walls of these air sacs become ...

“When the symptoms of COPD become worse, this is known as an exacerbation or ‘flare up’ and will require extra treatment and sometimes a hospital admission.” For more information about ...

In the treatment of COPD exacerbations, systemic corticosteroids improve airflow limitations, decrease treatment failure rates, decrease the risk of relapse, and may improve symptoms and decrease ...

Researchers developed a new COPD-ES questionnaire for healthcare professionals to improve the management of stable chronic ...