Status:

COMPLETED

Closing Volume Interpretation and Bronchodilators Effect

Lead Sponsor:

University of Milan

Collaborating Sponsors:

Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri

Conditions:

Healthy

COPD

Eligibility:

All Genders

20-85 years

Phase:

PHASE4

Brief Summary

* The gold standard measures to evaluate small airways (SAW) "in vivo" is not well understood * Two tests are today used to measure SAW but real results concordance is not clear * These problems have ...

Detailed Description

Evaluation of small airways both in healthy and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)subjects still today remains a big problem with implications in diagnostic and clinical management. The firs...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Signature of informed consent
  • Healthy subjects with age from 20 to 80 yars old and never smokers
  • COPD diagnosis
  • COPD with age from 50 to 85 years old
  • History of COPD at least of noe year
  • Respiratory stable conditions at least of one month
  • Any basal FEV1 expressed in % of predicted value
  • FEV1/Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) less than 70%
  • COPD with history of former or active smokers with minimum of 20 pack year

Exclusion

  • Pregnancy
  • FEV1/FVC more than 70%
  • Known deficit of alpha 1 antitrypsin
  • Subjects submitted to a Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS)
  • Subjects with known positivity to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
  • Known intolerance to a nasogastric balloon
  • Misuse of alcool or drugs
  • Absence of compliance in performing respiratory test

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

August 1 2011

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

September 1 2014

Estimated Enrollment :

40 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01437748

Start Date

August 1 2011

End Date

September 1 2014

Last Update

October 29 2014

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Pneumologia Riabilitativa-Fondazione Maugeri-Istituto Scientifico di Milano- IRCCS

Milan, Milano, Italy, 20138