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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2025

Early Identification of Exacerbations in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

Ilektra Voulgareli, Elvira-Markela Antonogiannaki, Konstantinos Bartziokas, Stavrina Zaneli, Petros Bakakos, Stelios Loukides, Andriana I Papaioannou

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Ilektra Voulgareli2nd Respiratory Medicine Department, "Attikon" University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Elvira-Markela Antonogiannaki2nd Respiratory Medicine Department, "Attikon" University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Konstantinos BartziokasIndependent Researcher, 42131 Trikala, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9657-3705
Stavrina Zaneli1st Respiratory Medicine Department, "Sotiria" Chest Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Petros Bakakos1st Respiratory Medicine Department, "Sotiria" Chest Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-9256-9656
Stelios Loukides2nd Respiratory Medicine Department, "Attikon" University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-4278-9922
Andriana I Papaioannou1st Respiratory Medicine Department, "Sotiria" Chest Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-9708-3241

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have a substantial effect on overall disease management, health system costs, and patient outcomes. However, exacerbations are often underdiagnosed or recognized with great delay due to several factors such as patients' inability to differentiate between acute episodes and symptom fluctuations, delays in seeking medical assistance, and disparities in dyspnea perception. Self-management intervention plans, telehealth and smartphone-based programs provide educational material, counseling, virtual hospitals and telerehabilitation, and help COPD patients to identify exacerbations early. Moreover, biomarkers such as blood eosinophil count, fibrinogen, CRP, Serum amyloid A(SAA),together with imaging parameters such as the pulmonary artery-to-aorta diameter ratio, have emerged as potential predictors of exacerbations, yet their clinical utility is limited by variability and lack of specificity. In this review, we provide information regarding the importance of the early identification of exacerbation events in COPD patients and the available methods which can be used for this purpose.

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biomarkersCOPDexacerbationsself-management interventiontelehealth

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PMID39860403
PMCPMC11765565

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