The individual parameters to define asthma seventy and asthma control overlap significantly. Validated measures, such as ACT, ACS, ACO, for assessing asthma control are now available, but no comparison among the existing measures has been performed. This study aimed to assess the corrrelation between ACT and ACS either before of after inhaled corticossteroid (ICS). This was a cohort study. Samp…
Exacerbation, mostly of an infectious etiology, are frequent cause of morbidity and mortality in COPD patient. The rle o bacterial patern in sputum of patients wirh acute bacterial exacerbations of COPD, the possible relation between functional respiratory impairment (measured by FEV1) and isolation of diverse pahogens in the sputum and to determine the role of Echinacea purpurea in bacterilogi…
This study was undertaken to ivestigate microbiological pattern and the related antibiotic resistance of acute bacterial exacerbation of COPD in Persahabatan hospital. The relationship between sputum bacteriology and severity of COPD obstruction was also evaluated. The cross-sectional study, 87 sputum specimens was assesed with Gram’s smears by using Bartlett’s score criteria. A quantitati…
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a common method of creating copies of creating copies of specific fragments of DNA PCR rapidly amplifies a single DNA molecule into many billions of molecules and can be detected with visualization. Diagnostic of pleural effusion caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is still a clinical prili were oblem especially of low sensitivity in conventional methods. To …
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by airflow limitation that is not fully reversible. An importance factor in exercise limitation is ventilator is ventilator disturbance because of airflow limitation and increase work of breathing in the diaphragm. Respiratory muscle dysfunction contribute to dyspnoea and the onset of hypercapnea. This reduction in peripheral and res…