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Long-Term Efficacy of Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Patients with Occupational Respiratory Diseases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation is a well-recognized treatment option in chronic obstructive lung disease improving exercise performance, respiratory symptoms and quality of life.
Jörres, Rudolf A.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Is it possible to reverse frailty in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? [PDF]

open access: yesClinics, 2020
In recent years, frailty has attracted increasing attention from clinicians and health care workers. The influence of frailty on the elderly, especially those with chronic diseases of the respiratory system, is highly significant. Frailty is particularly
Zhe Wang, Xiaojing Hu, Qingxiang Dai
doaj   +1 more source

The efficacy of psychologically based interventions to improve anxiety, depression and quality of life in COPD: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article comprises a systematic review and meta-analysis looking at the efficacy of psychological intervention in improving anxiety, depression and quality of life in respiratory disease.Objective: To systematically evaluate the efficacy of ...
Adams   +47 more
core   +2 more sources

The Efficacy of Therapeutic Respiratory Muscle Training Interventions in People with Bronchiectasis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background: Respiratory muscle dysfunction is an important health problem with high morbidity and mortality and associated costs in patients with bronchiectasis (BC).
Casuso-Holgado, Maria Jesus   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

Improvements in functional and cognitive status following short-term pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD lung transplant recipients: a pilot study

open access: yesERJ Open Research, 2019
Background Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) following lung transplantation (LTx) is considered part of the optimal treatment in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for favourable post-operative outcomes.
Vasileios Andrianopoulos   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Whole-body vibration training versus conventional balance training in patients with severe COPD—a randomized, controlled trial

open access: yesRespiratory Research, 2021
Background Whole-body vibration training (WBV) performed on a vibration platform can significantly improve physical performance in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Rainer Gloeckl   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

High-intensity non-invasive ventilation during exercise-training versus without in people with very severe COPD and chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure: a randomised controlled trial

open access: yesBMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2023
Background People with very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using nocturnal non-invasive ventilation (NIV) for chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure (CHRF) experience reduced exercise capacity and severe dyspnoea during exercise ...
Klaus Kenn   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Correspondence: British Thoracic Society guideline on pulmonary rehabilitation in adults: Does objectivity have a sliding scale? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. Copyright © 2014 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Thoracic Society. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non ...
Alison K McConnell   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Activity and analysis of costs in a dedicated weaning centre

open access: yesMonaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2016
Aim. To analyse the diagnosis-related characteristics and the costs of treating patients with difficult/prolonged weaning from mechanical ventilation we have undertaken a retrospective observational study. Methods.
E.M. Clini   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mood disorder in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: response to pulmonary rehabilitation

open access: yesERJ Open Research, 2023
Background Pulmonary rehabilitation improves mood disorder in COPD, but there are limited data in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The aims of this cohort study were to investigate whether pulmonary rehabilitation reduces mood disorder in IPF, and ...
George D. Edwards   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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