Diagnosis and predictors of COPD exacerbation

Oral Presentation
Chairs: C. Vogelmeier (Marburg, Germany), O. C. Burghuber (Vienna, Austria)
Late-breaking abstract: Factors associated with medication adherence in patients with COPD
I. Koca Kalkan, A. F. Kalpaklioglu (Kirikkale, Turkey)
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Congress or journal article abstractSlide presentation
Diagnosis of COPD exacerbations on hospital admission: Results from the European COPD audit
S. Hartl, J. Lopez-Campos, M. Roberts, M. Haan, R. Breyer-Kohansal, W. Jansen, N. Miculinic, N. Tzanakis, S. McCormack, J. Chorostowska, I. Solovic, F. Pozo-Rodríguez, D. Stolz, M. Polati, S. Welham, C. Farrugia Jones, F. Mihaltan (Vienna, Austria; Seville, Madrid, Spain; London, United Kingdom; Lausanne, Basel, Switzerland; Leuven, Belgium; Zagreb, Croatia; Marsaxlo, Malta; Dublin, Ireland; Warsawa, Poland; Vysne Hagy, Slovakia; Aydin, Turkey; Bucharest, Romania)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Any detectable admission cardiac troponin I level is associated with increased risk of early death following COPD exacerbations
P. R. Vamadevan, A. W. Hitchings, T. S. Grewal, D. Ahnood, E. H. Baker (London, United Kingdom)
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Value of prothrombin fragments F1+2 in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in patients hospitalized due to COPD exacerbation
M. Beckerman, P. Weiner (Hadera, Israel)
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Association of the severe, frequent exacerbation phenotype with exercise capacity, sputum bacteriology and copeptin circulating levels in COPD
D. Stolz, W. Boersma, R. Louis, F. Blasi, B. Milenkovic, A. Lacoma, J. Aerts, V. Heinen, M. Pappalettera, K. Kostikas, C. Prat, E. Wouters, A. Torres, T. Welte, M. Tamm (Basel, Switzerland; Alkmaar, Breda, Maastricht, Netherlands; Liege, Belgium; Milan, Italy; Serbia, Republic Of Serbia; Badalona, Barcelona, Spain; Larissa, Greece; Hannover, Germany)
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Predictors of hospitalisation and death with acute exacerbations of COPD
A. Soltani, D. Reid, S. Quinn, I. Almond, R. Wood-Baker, E. H. Walters (Hobart, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, Australia)
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Baseline characteristics of patients with frequent exacerbations in the POET-COPDÔ trial
L. M. Fabbri, C. Vogelmeier, M. P. M. H. Rutten-van Mölken, K. F. Rabe, T. Glaab, F. Rühmkorf, H. Schmidt, K. M. Beeh (Modena, Italy; Marburg, Grosshansdorf, Ingelheim, Wiesbaden, Germany; Rotterdam, Netherlands)
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BNP is a predictor of mortality following COPD exacerbations
M. Knolle, D. Meek, L. Pearce, S. Tarrant, C. Laroche, T. Pulimood (Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom)
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