Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

PREVALENCE OF BRONCHIECTASIS IN COPD PATIENTS

Dr. Vikash Kumar, Dr. Anjali P. Ghare

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BACKGROUND : – COPD is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality world¬wide and results in an economic and social burden to individual and the Community. Exacerbations and co–morbidities leads to the overall severity in individual patients. Different studies have shown that the presence of onchiectasis is associated with colonization with pathogenic bacteria especially Pseudomonas and may be a predictor of exacerbations. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES : To study the prevalence of prevalence of onchiectasis in COPD patients. MATERIAL AND METHOD : This study was done on COPD patients diagnosed in NMCH, Jamuhar between November 2017 and Feuary 2019. All COPD cases were subjected to HRCT thorax. Diagnosis of onchiectasis was done from HRCT thorax. CONCLUSION : – the prevalence of onchiectasis in COPD patients in our study came out to be 9.75%. In male it came to be 10.2% while in female it came to be 9.09%.

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Article: Download PDF   DOI : 10.36106/ijsr  

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PREVALENCE OF BRONCHIECTASIS IN COPD PATIENTS, Dr. Vikash Kumar, Dr. Anjali P. Ghare INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-4 | April-2019


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