View clinical trials related to Emphysema.
Filter by:The Generating Engagement in Network Involvement (GENIE) Tool is designed to support people to find and join social activities in their own neighbourhoods. Evidence has shown that people with more social support have increased ability to manage long term conditions and ill health. Patients with Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (COPD) have difficulty breathing every day; this is both tiring and makes its difficult to socialise as they did prior to having their condition. COPD can be managed with medicines, and exercise, but will never be cured, so it is considered a 'long term condition.' This study plans to use a social mapping tool (GENIE) with COPD patients that are already part of the community service. The aim of the study is to increase opportunities to socialise and get day to day support outside of the health service. Patients will be offered either the tool, or usual care. If the study is successful then use of health care may reduce in the COPD patients already using the COPD service.
This is a multicenter, prospective study designed to evaluate performance of the SVS in the REACH SVS control patients. The study is expected to enroll up to 20 patients at up to 12 sites with up to 6 patients per site.
The SCCOR Minorities study will recruit minority participants from the COPDGene cohort, in whom the University of Pittsburgh has already obtained baseline and five year data, in order to enhance bone mineral density and vascular function data collection from minority smokers. Dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans will be obtained to measure bone mineral density. Non-invasive vascular studies will be performed to measure endothelial function. Questionnaires regarding symptoms and activity levels will be administered and a blood sample will be obtained in participants in which blood samples are not already available from the COPDGene study visits.
In patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) lifestyles with lower physical activity levels have been shown to increase the risk of hospital admissions and shorten survival rates. An established process in increasing activity levels is to undergo pulmonary rehabilitation classes. The investigators wish to identify whether the use of activity monitors,which will provide feedback on activity levels, will increase the physical activity levels of patients with COPD outside of the supervised pulmonary rehabilitation sessions.
This study uses CT scans to assess airflow in the lung, the scan is quick, cheap and painless. The information from the scan may help doctors tell which patients are suitable to have surgery to cure early stage lung cancer. It may also help doctors tell which patients would benefit from surgery for emphysema and diagnose types of lung disease. The investigators will follow up patients who go through surgery to test how well the scan predicts the function of the lung after surgery. The investigators will follow patients being investigated for lung disease to test how accurate the scan is at the getting the diagnosis right.
The study hypothesis is that patients with homogeneous emphysema behave differently compared to heterogeneous emphysema with respect to exercise capacity. A better understanding of this difference will allow the investigators to choose the best treatment for each type of patient. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the change in exercise capacity measured by cycle ergometry in patients with severe emphysema after endoscopic lung volume reduction with coils (eLVR). As a secondary purpose, the investigators want to perform an exploratory, randomized study to compare the results of two different therapeutic approaches in a small sample of patients with homogeneous emphysema.
A multicenter, prospective, single-arm clinical investigation to evaluate the short term and long term safety of a modified staged treatment algorithm using the AeriSeal System.
This is an observational study examining outcomes and treatment patterns in a community-based cohort of subjects with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who are based in the Kannapolis, NC area.
Hyperinflation Assessment After Treatment by Lung Volume Reduction Coil (HEAT-LVRC) on Hyperinflation in Severe Emphysema
Current guideline-based criteria defining COPD do not meet the challenges set by the complex pathophysiology of the disease. The investigators therefore aimed to evaluate novel or not widely used diagnostic approaches for the detection and therapeutic monitoring of COPD.