TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of radiologically stratified exacerbations
T2 - Insights into pneumonia aetiology in COPD
AU - the AERIS Study Group
AU - Williams, Nicholas P.
AU - Ostridge, Kristoffer
AU - Devaster, Jeanne Marie
AU - Kim, Viktoriya
AU - Coombs, Ngaire A.
AU - Bourne, Simon
AU - Clarke, Stuart C.
AU - Harden, Stephen
AU - Abbas, Ausami
AU - Aris, Emmanuel
AU - Lambert, Christophe
AU - Tuck, Andrew
AU - Williams, Anthony
AU - Wootton, Stephen
AU - Staples, Karl J.
AU - Wilkinson, Tom M.A.
AU - Alnajar, J.
AU - Ballou, W. R.
AU - Barton, A.
AU - Caubet, M.
AU - Cleary, D.
AU - Cohet, C.
AU - Devine, V.
AU - Devos, N.
AU - Dineen, E.
AU - Gladstone, R.
AU - Jefferies, J.
AU - Mesia-Vela, S.
AU - Moris, P.
AU - Pascal, T. G.
AU - Peeters, M.
AU - Schoonbroodt, S.
AU - Welsh, L.
AU - Weynants, V.
AU - Woelk, C.
AU - Wojtas, M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The study was funded by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA. No restrictions were placed on authors regarding the statements made in the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Author(s).
PY - 2018/7/28
Y1 - 2018/7/28
N2 - Background: COPD patients have increased risk of developing pneumonia, which is associated with poor outcomes. It can be symptomatically indistinguishable from exacerbations, making diagnosis challenging. Studies of pneumonia in COPD have focused on hospitalised patients and are not representative of the ambulant COPD population. Therefore, we sought to determine the incidence and aetiology of acute exacerbation events with evidence of pneumonic radiographic infiltrates in an outpatient COPD cohort. Methods: One hundred twenty-seven patients with moderate to very severe COPD aged 42-85 years underwent blood and sputum sampling over one year, at monthly stable visits and within 72 h of exacerbation symptom onset. 343 exacerbations with chest radiographs were included. Results: 20.1% of exacerbations had pneumonic infiltrates. Presence of infiltrate was highly seasonal (Winter vs summer OR 3.056, p = 0.027). In paired analyses these exacerbation events had greater increases in systemic inflammation. Bacterial detection rate was higher in the pneumonic group, with Haemophilus influenzae the most common bacteria in both radiological groups. Viral detection and sputum microbiota did not differ with chest radiograph appearance. Conclusions: In an outpatient COPD cohort, pneumonic infiltrates at exacerbation were common, and associated with more intense inflammation. Bacterial pathogen detection and lung microbiota were not distinct, suggesting that exacerbations and pneumonia in COPD share common infectious triggers and represent a continuum of severity rather than distinct aetiological events.
AB - Background: COPD patients have increased risk of developing pneumonia, which is associated with poor outcomes. It can be symptomatically indistinguishable from exacerbations, making diagnosis challenging. Studies of pneumonia in COPD have focused on hospitalised patients and are not representative of the ambulant COPD population. Therefore, we sought to determine the incidence and aetiology of acute exacerbation events with evidence of pneumonic radiographic infiltrates in an outpatient COPD cohort. Methods: One hundred twenty-seven patients with moderate to very severe COPD aged 42-85 years underwent blood and sputum sampling over one year, at monthly stable visits and within 72 h of exacerbation symptom onset. 343 exacerbations with chest radiographs were included. Results: 20.1% of exacerbations had pneumonic infiltrates. Presence of infiltrate was highly seasonal (Winter vs summer OR 3.056, p = 0.027). In paired analyses these exacerbation events had greater increases in systemic inflammation. Bacterial detection rate was higher in the pneumonic group, with Haemophilus influenzae the most common bacteria in both radiological groups. Viral detection and sputum microbiota did not differ with chest radiograph appearance. Conclusions: In an outpatient COPD cohort, pneumonic infiltrates at exacerbation were common, and associated with more intense inflammation. Bacterial pathogen detection and lung microbiota were not distinct, suggesting that exacerbations and pneumonia in COPD share common infectious triggers and represent a continuum of severity rather than distinct aetiological events.
KW - COPD
KW - Exacerbations
KW - Infiltrates
KW - Pneumonia
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U2 - 10.1186/s12931-018-0842-8
DO - 10.1186/s12931-018-0842-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 30055608
AN - SCOPUS:85050668465
SN - 1465-9921
VL - 19
JO - Respiratory research
JF - Respiratory research
IS - 1
M1 - 143
ER -