... of patients with IPF is been limited. Additionally, the effects on symptoms such as breathlessness and cough are relatively non-documented in official trials. Respiratory failure Chronic cough Quality of life Dyspnea Pulmonary stress © 2025 The Author(s). Published by S. Karger AG, Basel...

... intervention carried out by a specialized palliative care team has demonstrated its effectiveness in helping patients improve their quality of life. The aim of this pilot study was to verify the effects of a multidisciplinary intervention carried out by a team not specialized in palliative care (physician...

..., quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2024 Home mechanical ventilation Quality of life Non-invasive ventilation...

...Elena Pfeuffer-Jovic; Franziska Joa; Michael Halank; Jens-Holger Krannich; Matthias Held Introduction: Anxiety and depression are common in pulmonary hypertension (PH) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is reduced. Sufficient analyses in incident and prevalent patients are lacking, so we...

...Raffaele Scala; Maximilian Wollsching-Strobel; Sarah Bettina Schwarz; Luca Guidelli; Friederike Sophie Magnet; Daniel Sebastian Majorski; Wolfram Windisch Background: The Severe Respiratory Insufficiency Questionnaire (SRI) is a multidimensional instrument for health-related quality of life (HRQL...

... Scale, and quality of life. Further, changes in pulmonary function tests were explored. Results: Of 64 patients undergoing rehabilitation, 58 patients (mean age 47 years, 43% women, 38% severe/critical COVID-19) were included in the per-protocol-analysis. At baseline (i.e., in mean 4.4 months after...

... to no collateral ventilation provides clinically meaningful change from baseline in lung function, quality of life, exercise capacity, dyspnea, and the BODE index at 6 months, with benefits maintained out to 12 months. [email protected] 8 02 2021 22 04 2021 23 7 2021...

...So Jeong Kim; Nakwon Kwak; Sun Mi Choi; Jinwoo Lee; Young Sik Park; Chang-Hoon Lee; Sang-Min Lee; Chul-Gyu Yoo; Jaeyoung Cho Background: While extreme sleep duration negatively affects mortality and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in general populations, the relationship remains uncertain...

... effusions do not only have an impact on survival but also cause a huge repercussion on a patient’s quality of life. Objectives: The main objective was to describe quality of life status before and after pleurodesis in patients with malignant pleural effusion. Secondary, we aimed to find predictors...

...Mareye Voortman; Celine M.R. Hendriks; Paul Lodder; Marjolein Drent; Jolanda De Vries Background: Consequences of sarcoidosis are wide ranging, and the symptom burden has a great impact on patients’ quality of life (QoL). However, the QoL of couples living with sarcoidosis has not yet been studied...

... of patients with sarcoidosis referred for a 3-week inpatient PR, to assess the effects of PR on their quality of life (QoL) and clinical outcomes, and to investigate whether there are specific subgroups who particularly benefit from PR. Methods: Using a prospective multicentre study design, data regarding 6...

... affect physical activity levels. Methods: In patients with sarcoidosis, we measured physical activity (steps per day) by accelerometry (SenseWear Armband) for 1 week. We assessed lung function (DLCO, FVC), exercise capacity (6-min walking distance [6MWD]), health-related quality of life (St George’s...

... served as controls. The training group exercised twice a week for 90 min with consecutively increasing loads. At the time of enrollment (T 0 ), as well as after 3 (T 1 ) and 6 (T 2 ) months, a 6-min walk test (6-MWT) was performed and data on health-related quality of life, femoral muscle thickness...

... chronically infected (>50% of positive samples). Quality of Life (according to the Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire-Revised) was higher if both respiratory load and the PTI mus were low (high respiratory muscle efficiency). Conclusions: Chronic P. aeruginosa infection does not influence respiratory muscle...

...Alexandru Corlateanu; Victor Botnaru; Serghei Covantev; Silvia Dumitru; Nikolaos Siafakas Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major cause of morbidity in the elderly population. COPD leads to a reduced health-related quality of life (HRQL), but the factors which contribute...

...Timm Greulich; Andreas Rembert Koczulla; Christoph Nell; Katharina Kehr; Claus F. Vogelmeier; Dragan Stojanovic; Michael Wittmann; Konrad Schultz Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation improves exercise capacity, symptoms, and quality of life in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients...

...-related quality of life (HRQOL) in chronic respiratory conditions, but its reliability, validity and responsiveness in individuals with mild to moderate non-cystic fibrosis (CF) bronchiectasis are unclear. Objectives: This study aimed to determine measurement properties of the CRDQ in non-CF...

...Daniel Langer Lung transplantation is an established treatment for patients with end-stage lung disease. It has been observed that despite near-normal lung function, exercise intolerance and reductions in quality of life (QOL) often persist up to years after transplantation. Several modifiable pre...

... adverse effects on respiratory function and quality of life. Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the effect of therapeutic bronchoscopic interventions on spirometry, dyspnea, quality of life, and survival in patients with CAO. Methods: We prospectively studied patients who underwent...

... procedure on patient quality of life (QoL) has not been well described. Objectives: To ascertain the impact of TPCs on symptoms and QoL of patients with recurrent MPE. Methods: Patients with recurrent MPE completed the EORTC QLQ-C30 and LC13 QoL questionnaires at baseline, 2 and 14 weeks; FACIT-TS-G ©...