| Literature DB >> 7244391 |
N Ambrosino, P L Paggiaro, M Macchi, M Filieri, G Toma, F A Lombardi, F Del Cesta, A Parlanti, A M Loi, L Baschieri.
Abstract
51 male patients with mild degree chronic airway obstruction underwent detailed evaluation of pulmonary function tests, blood gas analysis and exercise tolerance test before and after a short-term therapy. The patients were randomly assigned to medical therapy alone or to medical and rehabilitative therapy. 23 patients treated with medical and rehabilitative therapy showed a significant decrease of respiratory rate and PaCO2 and a significant increase of TV, FEV 1.0, FEV 0.75 x 40, PaO2, SaO2 and exercise tolerance after a month of therapy. 28 patients treated with medical therapy alone showed a significant increase of VC and FEV 0.75 x 40. These data suggest that rehabilitative therapy is a valid adjunct to medical therapy in the short-term treatment of chronic airway obstruction.Entities:
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Year: 1981 PMID： 7244391 DOI： 10.1159/000194357
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Respiration ISSN： 0025-7931 Impact factor: 3.580