The new COPD guidelines talk about using the Modified Medical Research Council Dyspnea (MMRC) scale and the COPD Assessment Test (CAT) to better assess symptoms in COPD independently of FEV 1.

Learn more about how COPD affects your health and changes your body, and what you can do about that to prevent or reduce your risk for this progressive lung disease.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) represents a complex disease with multifaceted pathophysiology involving over 20 identified genetic mutations that can contribute to disease development.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a common respiratory condition involving progressive lung damage. This article, the first in a two-part series, describes its pathophysiology, diagnosis and ...

Emphysema is a chronic lung condition characterised by the destruction of alveolar walls. This pathophysiology involves damage that impairs the lungs' ability to recoil: decreasing airflow and ...

Panelists discuss how idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive and often fatal interstitial lung disease, presents significant clinical challenges due to its variable trajectory, limited ...

The 'Frequent-exacerbation' Phenotype There is an increasing interest in the frequency of COPD exacerbations, since this was found to relate to prevention and treatment. Most of the new drugs ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a common respiratory condition involving progressive lung damage. This article, the first in a two-part series, describes its pathophysiology, diagnosis and ...