Saves the questions and what to expect into your notes, next to the visit they belong to.
Keep this study
Lead
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes
Age
40–80
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
The patient must have given his/her informed and signed consent
The patient must be insured or beneficiary of a health insurance plan
The patient must have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Obstructive ventilation problem: Tiffeneau index (expiratory volume in one second / slow vital capacity) \< 70%
Expiratory volume in one second \< 80% of the theoretical value
Reversibility \< 12% after inhalation of bronchodilators
Smokers or ex smokers
Available for study monitoring
Has access to diagnostic, medical and therapeutic care according to the best, current criteria (see the recommendations of the French Language Pseumologist Society)
You may not be if
The patient is participating in another study
The patient has participated in another study in the past 12 months
The patient is in an exclusion period determined by a previous study
The patient is under judicial protection, under tutorship or curatorship
The patient refuses to sign the consent
It is impossible to correctly inform the patient
The patient is in military service (unavailable for monitoring)
Patient is on parole or otherwise has their liberty restricted by administrative or judiciary decision
The patient is pregnant, or does not have contraception
The patient is breastfeeding
Patient has neoplastic disease
Patient has asthma
Patient has another, evolving pulmonary disease (tuberculosis, pulmonary interstitium disease, active or recent pulmonary infection)
Patient has a clinical history indicating asthma or another respiratory disease (in particular bronchiectasis, pneumoconiosis and other occupational diseases, history of pulmonary neoplasia, HIV, immunosuppressive therapy including corticosteroids in the long term
Patient has respiratory insufficiency
Hypereosinophilic patient (the number of polynuclear eosinophils is \> 0.5 giga/l; confirmed on 2 hemograms)
Recent psychiatric trouble (less than 1 year)
Takes illegal drugs
Patient does not have pneumological care according to the standards set by the French Language Pneumologist Society
