慢性阻塞性肺疾病急性加重期诊治新进展

New progress in Diagnosis and Treatment of AECOPD

慢性阻塞性肺疾病(chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,COPD)作为主要的公共卫生问题,越来越受到临床界的广泛关注。慢性阻塞性肺疾病急性加重期(AECOPD)是指COPD的急性起病过程,其特征是患者呼吸系统症状恶化,超出日常变异,需要改变药物治疗等。作为COPD临床过程中的重要事件,频繁急性加重会对患者的生活质量产生巨大影响,加速肺功能恶化,也是患者住院和死亡的主要原因。因此,掌握AECOPD的诊治新进展至关重要。

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease （COPD） is one of the major public health problems, which has received in- creasing attention in recent years. Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases （AECOPD） refers to the process of acute onset of COPD, which is characterized with respiratory symptoms worsen, daily variation exceeding and needs of medication change. AECOPD is an important event in clinical course of COPD, the frequent exacerbations of it significantly reduced patients life quality, accelerated the deterioration of lung function, increased rates of hospitalization and mortality. Generally speaking, it is of crucial importance to master the progress in diagnosis and treatment of AECOPD.