Eduard Monsó

TL;DR: The lower airways of asymptomatic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients can be colonized by bacteria, mainly Haemophilus influenza, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Moraxella catarrhalis, but the role of lower airway bacteria in stable and exacerbated COPD has not been well defined.

TL;DR: HRQL measures provide independent and relevant information on the health status of male patients with COPD and should be considered for a more thorough evaluation and staging of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

TL;DR: The adaptation into Spanish of the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ), a self-administered questionnaire developed by Jones et al. (1991) covering three domains of health in airways disease patients, suggests that the SGRQ may already be used in Spain and in international studies involving Spanish respiratory patients.

TL;DR: In patients with COPD recruited at their first hospitalisation, three different COPD subtypes were identified and prospectively validated: ‘severe respiratory COPD’, ‘moderate respiratory COPd’ and ‘systemic COPD'.

TL;DR: Exacerbation is associated with the overgrowth of PPMs and with the appearance of P aeruginosa in the lower airway, which isassociated with exacerbation symptoms independent of load.