Personalized Management in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Personalized Therapy in Clinical Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 1826
Special Issue Editor
Interests: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; airway obstruction; pulmonology; allergy
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Dear Colleagues,
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a complex and heterogeneous disease that is continuously increasing in the adult and elderly population. The diagnosis of COPD is too late in the natural history of the disease, and the presence of numerous comorbidities at the time of diagnosis affects its clinical management. The use of personalized medicine is essential to achieve meaningful clinical outcomes. Current COPD management is still based on predictable and binary outcomes, supported by randomised clinical trials, does not tolerate uncertainty, and is far from personalised management algorithms maximising health benefits concerning symptoms for the individual patient.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to focus on the main aspects of a personalized approach to COPD management. We are soliciting in-depth commentary, original research (including communications), and review articles with a focus on new developments and important advances in the personalized management of COPD. The main aspects of a personalized approach to COPD management could be the role of early diagnosis of the disease, functional phenotyping, comorbidities management with particular regard to the concept of future cardiopulmonary risk, personalized management of exacerbations, and personalized long-term therapy of the disease, including personalized end-of-life management.
Dr. Paolo Ruggeri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- COPD
- lung function
- comorbidities
- cardiopulmonary risk
- exacerbation
- inhalation therapy
- early diagnosis
- phenotyping
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