Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 6:37 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 6:37 PM
NCT ID:
NCT06274957
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Being classified as GOLD stage 3 or 4 based on spirometric evaluation in the medical history.
* Having a hospital admission within the specified time frame, evaluated by a pulmonary specialist, and admitted to the pulmonary diseases service with a diagnosis of COPD exacerbation.
* Being 40 years of age or older.
* Voluntarily agreeing to participate in the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Having a hospital admission with a diagnosis of asthma attack in the last 5 years.
* Monitoring suspicious focal points for pneumonia on lung radiology.
* Hospitalization due to reasons other than exacerbation despite having a diagnosis of COPD.
* Presence of pulmonary fibrosis or suspicious findings of fibrosis on radiology.
* Systemic fungal infections.
* Having cognitive impairment affecting the decision to participate in the study, such as confusion, orientation disorder, or dementia.
* Patients with lung cancer or metastasis in the lungs.
* Diagnosis of conditions provoking shortness of breath other than COPD exacerbation, such as pneumonia, pneumothorax, heart failure, and pulmonary embolism.
* Presence of a new-onset rhythm disorder or ischemic changes requiring intervention on the EKG, excluding sinus tachycardia and multifocal atrial tachycardia.
* Chronic kidney failure requiring hemodialysis.
* Patients with conditions causing weakness in the lower extremities, such as arthritis, neurological disease, deep vein thrombosis, peripheral artery disease, muscle weakness, fractures, osteoarthritis, etc.
* Having ankylosing spondylitis with a Cobb angle of 10 degrees or more in the radiographic evaluation of the vertebral column.
* Having undergone surgery on the upper extremities, lower extremities, neck, and back.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
40 Years
Study:
NCT06274957
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT06274957