Open AccessDiagnostic biomarkers of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at elderly patients
Author(s) -
Yakup Arslan,
Deniz Doğan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medicine science | international medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2147-0634
DOI - 10.5455/medscience.2019.08.9065
Subject(s) - pulmonary disease , medicine , exacerbation , intensive care medicine , copd , acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , disease
Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are caused by a variety of different etiologies. The aim of the current study was to determine the diagnostic biomarkers for verifying the diagnosis of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and predicting the length of hospital stay at elderly patients. The files of 120 patients who had been hospitalized with the diagnose of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease between January 2017 to December 2018 in the Chest Disease Department of Gulhane Education and Training Hospital were examined retrospectively. The numbers and the percentage of male and female patients were 83 (% 69) and 37 (% 31) respectively. Increases in the prohormone brain natriuretic peptide values of elderly patients were found as statistically significant (p
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