COPD severity and right heart status among patients attending a tertiary care hospital in Madurai, Tamilnadu


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Original Article

Author :

Premananth P, Deiveegan C, Nagarajan N, Gnanasekaran R

Volume :

4

Issue :

4

Abstract :

There has been rise in trend of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and threatening complications is a health care challenge among all lung diseases. Objective: To assess the severity among COPD patients and classify based on Spirometry findings among those attending the resipatry medicine outpatient department in a tertiary care hospital, Madurai and to assess the right heart status with Echocardiography among the same study participants. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out including 120 patients by convenience sampling and all the study findings were entered in excel sheets. Results: The study shows direct relation between the severity of the COPD and right heart status.

Keyword :

  Chronic obstructive pulmonary, Disease, Spirometry, Pulmonary hypertension, Cor pulmonale, Echocardiography.