Marwa Moawad Shaban

Pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / تأهيل الجهاز التنفسى فى مرضى السدة الرئوية Marwa Moawad Shaban ; Supervised Ahmed Abdelmeged Elhadidy , Hossam Hoseny Masoud , Amany Raafat Mohamed - Cairo : Marwa Moawad Shaban , 2011 - 232 P. : charts ; 25cm

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis

COPD affects various structural and functional domains in the lungs, leading to airflow limitation. It also has significant extrapulmonary effects . Weight loss , nutritional abnormalities and skeletal muscle dysfunction are well - recognized systemic effects . Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR ) programs are beneficial to COPD in order to improve exercise capacity , muscle force , symptoms and health - related quality of life



Aerobic training program COPD Short term exercise training program