Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes almost as many deaths as lung cancer, yet evidence about the impact of COPD in the latter stages of illness is limited. We assessed the healthcare needs of COPD patients in the last year of life through a retrospective survey of the ...
41]. Very recently, one study conducted in South Korea by recruiting both COPD and non-COPD patients with and without PTB showed that COPD patients with baseline history of PTB had higher incidence rate of LC in comparison
Palliative home careBackground: COPD patients often use extensive medical resources, e.g. frequent hospitalisations, when they are close to death. Palliative home care (PHC) coulddoi:10.2139/ssrn.3353389Charlotte ScheerensKristof FaesPeter PypeKim BeernaertKenneth Chambaere...
Data were visualised by Volcano plot (Figure S1). The acid dataset was also analysed by other boundaries of time before death (i.e., “day 0–7” versus “day 8+” and “day 0–15” versus “day, 16+”); this did not change the VOCs identified (Table S4)....
In the early stages of Ebola infection, patients experience gastrointestinal necrosis and hemorrhage, accompanied by ulcerations in the GI tract. Multiple severe implications can arise in the subsequent stages of Ebola infection, which include serosal bleeding, congestion in the GI junction, focal ...