‘ ‘ Comprehensive Management of End - Stage Copd
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fifth cause of morbidity and mortality in the developed world and represents a substantial economic and social burden. Patients experience a progressive deterioration up to end-stage COPD, characterised by very severe airflow limitation, severely limited and declining performance status with chronic respiratory failure, advanced age, multiple comorbidities and severe systemic manifestations/
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Series on comprehensive management of end-stage COPD.
C hronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects 6% of the general population and is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Severe and very severe disease, as defined by Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) stages III and IV [1], show a prevalence of 4.5 and 2.2% in males [2, 3]. COPD guidelines generally do not address patients with end-stage diseas...
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تاریخ انتشار 2007