Abstract
In a series of 145 patients, mortality after an episode of acute respiratory failure due to COPD was about 30 percent. Only 16 percent survived for five years. Survival was lowest in patients with alveolar destruction due to chronic diffuse infiltrative disease or to emphysema and highest in patients with bronchitis plus obesity.
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