NCT05475977

Role of MSCT of Chest in Differentiation Between COPD Patients According to Their Smoking Status

Role of Multislice Computed Tomography (MSCT) Chest in Differentiation Between Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(COPD) Patients According to Their Smoking Status

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 90 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Somaia Ahmad AbdAllah Ahmad · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality all over the world. Smoking is considered as an important risk factor, but other risk factors are present. Around 30 % of patients with COPD are non-smokers. Cessation of smoking in patients with COPD causes decreases the presence of micronodules and other criteria of CT chest. In last few years, some researchers reported that cessation of smoking raise the apparent extent of emphysema. The cause is not obvious, but this paradoxical fall in lung density is thaught to be resulting from decrease in inflammation after smoking cessation. CT chest criteria of COPD in active smokers, non-smokers and ex-smokers seem to be different. So, comparison between CT chest Criteria of COPD in smokers, ex-smokers and non-smokers will be searched in this study to detect the role of multislice computed tomography (MSCT) chest in differentiation between COPD patients according to their smoking status.

Detailed description

Basic ethical principles of medical research; beneficence (do well), non-maleficence (do no harm), respect and distributive justice were implemented. The study will be carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and the principles of good clinical practice.

Conditions

• Patient Participation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	MSCT chest	Multi slice Computed Tomography of the chest

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-08-01
• Primary completion: 2023-04-01
• Completion: 2023-07-01
• First posted: 2022-07-27
• Last updated: 2022-08-02