AD: This breathing technique aims to facilitate sputum clearance via careful movement of the EPP from the lung peripheries toward the proximal, larger airways. Autogenic drainage consists of ...

Individuals with early-onset COPD and rapidly progressive pre-COPD frequently have a decades-long history of impaired ...

Symptoms, like shortness of breath after activity, cough, and sputum production, are more noticeable. Your COPD is considered to be moderate. Your FEV1 is between 30% and 49% of the normal ...

COPD flare-ups to us are extremely serious because ... What I usually tell patients to look for in a flare-up is: Is their mucus getting worse? Is there more of it? Is it changing color?

For individuals with chronic lung conditions, the winter season and the current cold snap poses significant challenges. We ...

Physicians recommend that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) quit smoking and use steroids, ...

such as mucus gland enlargement, airway wall fibrosis, air sac wall damage, and loss of airway attachment, may not be completely reversible when smoking is stopped. This is the cause of COPD's ...

Study AER-01-002 is using a novel and precision imaging strategy to enroll 100 mucus plug-high chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients AER-01-002 is well powered to determine if 28-days ...

Comparisons between this literature and reports of current practice suggest that discrepancies may exist in relation to the clinical management of sputum in individuals with COPD. The novel ...