Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Καρδιοπνευμονική Αποκατάσταση και Αποκατάσταση Πασχόντων ΜΕΘLibrary of the School of Health Sciences
Supervisors info:
Νικόλαος Κουλούρης, Καθηγητής, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ, Επιβλέπων
Πέτρος Μπακάκος, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Νικολέττα Ροβίνα, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Αναπνευστική αποκατάσταση στις διάμεσες πνευμονοπάθειες
Translated title:
Pulmonary rehabilitation in interstitial lung disease
Summary:
Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) comprise a heterogeneous group of more than 300 different chronic conditions that affect primarily and to varying degrees irreversibly the lung parenchyma and whose prognosis heavily depends on their aetiology and type.
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Epidemiologically interstitial lung disease is divided in disease of known aetiology and in disease of unknown aetiology (idiopathic), the most common being the latter. Irrespective of individual category, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and sarcoidosis represent together more than 50% of all interstitial lung disease cases.
Pathological, Interstitial lung diseases are characterized by involvement of the lung parenchyma with varying amounts of inflammation and fibrosis leading to restrictive ventilatory syndrom and impaired gas exchange.
Clinically, Interstitial lung diseases are characterized by dyspnea and decreasing exercise capabilities lead to patients developing disabilities and impairments in their health related quality of life.
Treatment are often limited, without proven effect on survival and health related quality of life and associated with significant side effects.
Pulmonary rehabilitation has been defined as an ''evidence-based'' multidisciplinary and comprehensive intervention for patients with chronic respiratory disease who are symptomatic and often have decreased daily life activities.
Comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation programs involve not only exercise training with aerobic conditioning, strength and endurance training and respiratory therapy but also educational lectures, nutritional interventions, behavior modification techniques to improve self-management and physiological support.
The aim of this interview is to determine whether pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with interstitial lung disease has beneficial effects on exercise capacity symptoms, quality of life and survival compared with no pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with interstitial lung disease, to assess the safety of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with interstitial lung disease.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Pulmonary rehabilitation, Interstitial lung disease
