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Long-term Prognosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Patients on Home Oxygenotherapy.
COPD PostersSESSION TYPE: Poster PresentationsPRESENTED ON: Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 01:15 PM - 02:15 PMPURPOSE: Our objective has been to assess the survival of a cohort of COPD patients in HO program and to investigate the main causes of mortality between these patients. ⋯ The following authors have nothing to disclose: María del Carmen García García, Jacinto Hernández Borge, Pedro Pires Goncalves, Carlos Antonio Aranda López, Lourdes Cañón Barroso, Estefanía Molina Ortiz, Amparo Sanz Cabrera, José Antonio Gutierrez Lara, María Teresa Gómez Vizcaíno, Ignacio Rodríguez BlancoNo Product/Research Disclosure Information.
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Telemedicine PostersSESSION TYPE: Poster PresentationsPRESENTED ON: Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 01:15 PM - 02:15 PMPURPOSE: To determine if an early assisted discharge program for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations, with telemonitoring and telephone control, is equally effective and more efficient in terms of use of health care resources, that a home care provided by hospital department respiratory ⋯ The following authors have nothing to disclose: Patricia Mínguez, Beatriz Cadavid, Carmen Mata, Rosa Malo, Miriam Aguilar, Manuel Valle, Andrea Trisan, Antolín Lopez, Mario Pascual, Juan Fragua, Piedad UssettiNo Product/Research Disclosure Information.
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OSA PostersSESSION TYPE: Poster PresentationsPRESENTED ON: Saturday, March 22, 2014 at 01:15 PM - 02:15 PMPURPOSE: The most suitable treatment for OSAS is the CPAP. However there are patients who don't tolerate it. A therapeutic not surgical alternative is MAD . It consists of a plastic rod which being introduced in dental arcades produces the advance of the jaw and indirectly the advance of the tongue, hyoid and suprahyoidea musculature. All this implies a space and permeability increase of the top airway. Our objective is to evaluate the efficiency of the MAD, Herbst type, as a treatment for OSAS. This evaluation will be carried out by means of clinic and functional variables. ⋯ The following authors have nothing to disclose: Maria Pavón, Estefania Luque, Jose María Benitez, Jesús Sánchez, Andrés Vega Arias, Teodoro MontemayorNo Product/Research Disclosure Information.