Systematic Approach for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Lung Diseases

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The differential diagnosis of asthma and COPD is sometimes difficult. Recently, an overlap syndrome has been defined based on the concurrence of asthma and COPD characteristics. These characteristics are based on expert opinions and have never been investigated nor validated prospectively.

The investigators assume that the management strategy, the symptom burden and disease progression will differ between asthma, COPD and ACOS. Therefore, the study wants to establish baseline criteria for an appropriate disease definition and evaluate the potential impact on treatment and symptom control.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; KU Leuven
• Treatments: Bronchodilator Agents

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects with respiratory symptoms suggestive of chronic airway disease

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subjects with an immediate need for hospitalization or a treatment of systemic glucocorticoid or long-term antibiotics

• Subjects with pregnancy

• Subjects with clinically significant cardiovascular disease that warrants intervention

• Subject with concomitant pulmonary diseases (pulmonary embolism, interstitial lung disease etc..).