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Pulmonary disease characteristics that are clinically recognized

Airy Marina

To determine the prevalence and analyze the most relevant clinical characteristics of three clinical phenotypes of COPD, emphysema, chronic bronchitis or COPD-asthma. Observational, multicenter study performed with COPD patients recruited in pulmonology outpatient services. The stratification in three phenotypes was performed with
Imaging tests, pulmonary function, and a standardized clinical questionnaire. The presented an emphysematous phenotype, were chronic bronchi tic and the other presented a phenotype showing mixed characteristics with asthma. There were no significant differences in the smoking level, in the geometric values or time of disease evolution.


 
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