Pulmonary rehabilitation of the patient with nonobstructive lung disease.

Disability from chronic lung disease is usually associated with COPD and pulmonary rehabilitation programs are designed to address this population. There are a number of chronic nonobstructive lung diseases, however, that can produce disability and that also may benefit from pulmonary rehabilitation. This article discusses how to classify nonobstructive lung disease patients and examines their evaluation, rehabilitation, and outcomes.

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Author Neil Ross MacIntyre Jr. Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine