Use of adjunct cardiovascular therapy in patients hospitalised for acute exacerbations of COPD

ERJ Open Res. 2018 Sep 12;4(3):00087-2018. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00087-2018. eCollection 2018 Jul.

¹ Dept of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and Respiratory Diseases Unit, Modena, Italy.
² Statistic Unit, Dept of Diagnostics, Clinical and Public Health Medicine, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
³ San Andrea Hospital-ASL Vercelli, Pneumology Unit, Dept of Translational Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy.
⁴ Dept of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
⁵ Sahlgresnska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Abstract

In real-life practice, acute exacerbation of COPD is often treated as a cardiopulmonary syndrome http://ow.ly/uAnk30luMYz.