Our study is an observational, consequently not randomized, trial enrolling patients experienced a COPD exacerbation with respiratory failure and hypercapnia, subsequently treated with NIV. Evaluation of the role of PH, as comorbidity, in exerting influence for response to the NIV was a secondary endpoint of the study.our study confirms the role of PH in COPD with hypercapnic exacerbation as an unfavorable prognostic factor to the NIV response.
Pulmonary hypertension: A prognostic factor for response to non invasive mechanical ventilation in COPD exacerbations / Petroianni, Angelo; Parola, Daniela; Terzano, Claudio. - In: EUROPEAN REVIEW FOR MEDICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES. - ISSN 1128-3602. - 16:(2012).
Pulmonary hypertension: A prognostic factor for response to non invasive mechanical ventilation in COPD exacerbations
PETROIANNI, Angelo;PAROLA, Daniela;TERZANO, Claudio
2012
Abstract
Our study is an observational, consequently not randomized, trial enrolling patients experienced a COPD exacerbation with respiratory failure and hypercapnia, subsequently treated with NIV. Evaluation of the role of PH, as comorbidity, in exerting influence for response to the NIV was a secondary endpoint of the study.our study confirms the role of PH in COPD with hypercapnic exacerbation as an unfavorable prognostic factor to the NIV response.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
