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A clinical study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of MK0633 in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
Our study aims to investigate the benefits of an outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation program in a population of subjects with fibrotic interstitial lung disease. Our hypothesis is that pulmonary rehabilitation will lead to improvements in quality of life, breathlessness, exercise capacity and pulmonary function in this patient population.
This is a study to evaluate the effects of early pulmonary rehabilitation within 10 days after discharge from the hospital after a COPD exacerbation on exercise tolerance, exacerbations, re-admissions and the quality of life during 6 months.
This study will last for approximately 8 weeks and will involve 4 visits. The study is being carried out to validate a shortness of breath questionnaire
The purpose of this study is to examine whether breathing helium-hyperoxia during exercise in a pulmonary rehabilitation program can improve the exercise tolerance and health related quality of life of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
Patients with COPD experience exacerbations that are a major cause of morbidity. Exacerbations are associated with increased airway and systemic inflammation and those experiencing frequent exacerbations demonstrate increased inflammation in the stable state. Tiotropium has been shown to reduce exacerbation frequency and it might be postulated that this is due to a reduction in inflammation. The study will compare airway inflammation and exacerbation frequency in patients with COPD on tiotropium or placebo.
The main objective of the study is to evaluate the predictive factors of the endothelial function to the waning of an acute exacerbation in COPD. It will act to do a multivariate analysis to determine the respective weight of the parameters of the systemic inflammation, of the oxidative stress of the functional respiratory parameters and then functional respiratory parameters. In exacerbated Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients, there is augmentation of hypoxia and the obstructive ventilatory disorders is more important. This is correlated with an increase in C-reactive Protein (CRP) and of inflammatory cytokines and oxidative stress. It has been demonstrated that there is an endothelial dysfunction in answer to hypoxia. Since the exacerbated COPD patients are hypoxic in most cases , we suppose they have an endothelial dysfunction during exacerbation. So we think we will find an augmentation of vascular resistances ,shown by a peripheral arterial tone too high. And this, certainly, play a part in physiopathology of the COPD exacerbation.
The study was designed to obtain data about the efficacy and safety of 3 doses of indacaterol (150, 300, and 600 µg) in Japanese patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) so that optimal dose(s) could be chosen for testing in later studies.
The purpose of the study is to determine the appropriate dose of fluticasone propionate/formoterol fumarate that is closest to Advair Diskus (fluticasone propionate/salmeterol xinafoate using pulmonary function, safety, and levels of study drug in blood plasma in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.