Dyspnea

A home-based exercise training program for patients with COPD after pulmonary rehabilitation was associated with high adherence and a benefit in functional exercise capacity but no change in dyspnea from baseline to 1 year.

Patients with severe emphysema who received an endobronchial valve had sustained improvements in lung function and quality of life out to at least 24 months, according to long-term data from the TRANSFORM study.

Children infected with SARS-CoV-2 may not show typical symptoms such as fever, cough or dyspnea, according to a retrospective cohort study of more than 12,000 pediatric COVID-19 patients in the United States.

The ACP has issued a new guideline that recommends clinicians use point-of-care ultrasound along with the standard diagnostic pathway for patients with acute dyspnea when there is diagnostic uncertainty in the ED and inpatient settings.

For patients with ACS, ticagrelor after PCI demonstrated similar rates of net adverse clinical events at 1 year compared with clopidogrel, according to findings published in JAMA.

Older age, male sex and comorbidities are associated with increased risk for death among U.S. veterans with SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

In a new study, wearing a surgical face mask did not cause gas exchange abnormalities in healthy adults or in adults with lung function impairment, researchers reported in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Home-based telerehabilitation demonstrated improved quality of life but was not confirmed to be equivalent to center-based pulmonary rehabilitation, researchers reported at the virtual European Respiratory Society International Congress.

A small study presented at the virtual European Respiratory Society International Congress highlighted the importance of pulmonary rehabilitation after extubation in patients recovering from COVID-19.

COVID-19 survivors have persisting pulmonary impairment weeks after recovery, but for many it appears to improve over time, researchers reported at the virtual European Respiratory Society International Congress.