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2. How To Be Active in Your Treatment Journey With COPD - AOL

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   As a COPD advocate, Gordon now wants to help others with the disease by sharing his insights so that other patients can live their lives to the fullest. ... all play a vital role in COPD treatment ...

3. Can drugs like Ozempic help with COPD? - AOL

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   GLP-1 and SGLT-2 drugs may be the best treatments for people with type 2 diabetes and COPD. ... there was limited clinical evidence comparing their impact on COPD outcomes in patients with type 2 ...

4. Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction - Wikipedia

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   Endobronchial valves are inserted using a bronchoscope into sections of the lungs damaged by emphysema. Endobronchial valves are medical devices that allow air to exit these sections but not to re-enter. The valves, in effect, cause damaged lung tissue to deflate, thereby reducing the excessive lung volume (hyperinflation) caused by emphysema.

5. Endobronchial valve - Wikipedia

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   Endobronchial valves may be the first successful medical device treatment of emphysema, a disease that affects millions of people worldwide and has no known cure, being managed traditionally by lung transplantation and/or lung volume reduction surgery (though some people do not meet the eligibility requirements for one or both of these invasive ...

6. Effect of oxygen on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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   Many people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have a low partial pressure of oxygen in the blood and high partial pressure of carbon dioxide.Treatment with supplemental oxygen may improve their well-being; alternatively, in some this can lead to the adverse effect of elevating the carbon dioxide content in the blood (hypercapnia) to levels that may become toxic.

7. Subcutaneous emphysema - Wikipedia

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   Spontaneous subcutaneous emphysema is thought to result from increased pressures in the lung that cause alveoli to rupture. [5] In spontaneous subcutaneous emphysema, air travels from the ruptured alveoli into the interstitium and along the blood vessels of the lung, into the mediastinum and from there into the tissues of the neck or head. [5]