Desaturation during Physical Exercise in COPD Patients - a Stable-over-time Phenomenon.

Introduction: Exercise-induced desaturation is a common finding in patients with moderate and severe COPD. It is an important marker in the course of disease that has a prognostic value for mortality risk.

Aim: To monitor over time COPD patients with and without desaturation during 6-minute walking test (6MWT) and to assess the stability of that phenomenon.

Multidimensional system for assessment of COPD patients. Comparison with BODE index.

Aim: To present the principles of a multidimensional system for assessment of COPD patients, called DOREMI BOX, and to compare it with BODE index. The letters of the abbreviation stand for the following: D--dyspnea, O--obstruction, RE--rate of exacerbation, MI--movement (exercise) intolerance, B--Body Mass Index, OX--blood oxygen disturbances.

Methods: For validation of DOREMI BOX we tested 84 patients with COPD (age = 59 +/- 9 years, FEV1% = 35 +/- 14%; Charlson index = 2.

Maximal inspiratory pressure predicts mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a five-year follow-up.

Introduction: The therapeutic modality for the treatment of COPD depends on the proper determination of all factors that may have an effect on the course and prognosis of the disease.

Aim: To assess the prognostic role of maximal inspiratory pressure (PImax) and a large group of lung function parameters in patients with COPD followed up over a period of five years.

Patients And Methods: A cohort of 63 COPD patients (age 58.

Correlation of frequency of exacerbations with the BODE index in COPD patients.

Background: In recent research B. Celli et al. (N Engl J Med 2004;350:1005-12) proposed a complex grading system (which they designated by BODE) for predicting the mortality risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Tidal breathing analysis in school-age children. Comparison with the parameters of forced expiration.

Unlabelled: Tidal breathing analysis is a method which has the potential to be used for distinguishing and follow-up of airflow obstruction (AFO) in infants, children and critically ill patients. The aim of the present study was to analyse the tidal breathing parameters (TBP) in healthy and in asthmatic school-age children and to compare them with the parameters of forced expiration.

Subjects: Two hundred and twenty five healthy children and 100 asthmatics (7 to 14 years- old) took part in the present study.

Long-term changes in dyspnea, lung function, and exercise capacity in COPD patients.

Objective: To examine longitudinal changes in dyspnea, lung function, and exercise capacity in COPD patients and to compare baseline data of frequent and infrequent exacerbators at trial entry.

Methods: Nineteen stable COPD patients without significant co-morbidity (age, 58.4 +/- 8.

Cardiovascular and dyspnea response to six-minute and shuttle walk tests in COPD patients.

Unlabelled: Previous studies focusing on the changes of heart rate, systolic blood pressure and dyspnea caused by the six-minute (6MWT) and shuttle walking distance tests (ISWT) have produced conflicting data. The present study aims at comparing the cardiovascular and dyspnea responses to 6MWT and ISWT in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Twenty patients with clinically stable COPD (age, 56 +/- 9 yrs; BMI, 27.