Efficacy of long-term therapy of chronic obstructive bronchitis

Abstract

The aim of the study was to assess results of long-term treatment of chronic obstructive bronchitis (COB) patients performed by therapeutists trained according to the Federal programme on COPD.

Treatment results of 151 COB patients (100 males and 51 females) were analyzed. The average age of the patients was 51.8±0.8 years. The long-term treatment was carried out in accordance to the algorithm of the basic therapy of COPD.

The significant positive changes in the patients’ clinical status were noted at the end of the 3rd week of the therapy: a cough frequency reduced in 96.7% of the patients and a dyspnoe severity decreased in 95.4% of them. The peak flow rate parameters improved reliably. Seventy three moderate to severe COB patients had received the basic medication during 12 months showed decreasing cough and dyspnoe seventy and improving peak flow rate parameters though these changes were less intensive than in the first 3 weeks of the treatment.

So, the investigation demonstrated a possibility to inhibit the bronchial obstruction and COB clinical signs progression under the background of the long-term basic therapy.