Fig 1.
BE: bronchiectasis; CF: cystic fibrosis; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Table 1.
General, clinical and radiological data.
Fig 2.
Severity of patients with bronchiectasis secondary to COPD according to GOLD staging.
COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Table 2.
Functional data.
Table 3.
Microbiological data.
Fig 3.
Presence of chronic bronchial colonisation.
(A) Chronic bronchial colonisation by any microorganism according to functional severity group. (B) Chronic bronchial colonisation by P. aeruginosa according to functional severity group. BE: bronchiectasis: COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Fig 4.
Presence of exacerbations during the previous year.
(A) According to CBC by any microorganism. (B) According to CBC by P. aeruginosa. BE: bronchiectasis; CBC: chronic bronchial colonisation; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; PA: Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Table 4.
Treatment data according to the presence of COPD and CBC by P. aeruginosa.
Fig 5.
Kaplan Meier survival curve: Cumulative percentage of survivors per non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis aetiology.
Curves compared by means of the log-rank test: COPD curve vs. other aetiologies curves (log-rank 38.800; p<0.0001).
Table 5.
Survival analysis: Cox regression adjusted by age, gender, BE extension, body mass index, presence of CBC caused by PA, FEV1 (% predicted), smoking habit and COPD diagnosis.