Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Overview

This is an interventional double-blind randomized controlled trial, to investigate the short and long-term effects of a supervised exercise training program in patients with IPF, depending on alternate patterns of oxygen supplementation during PR.

The investigators hypothesize that PR service with supplemented oxygen supply regardless of hypoxemia may have significantly better short-term effects in patients with IPF. The study will take place in Corfu General Hospital, by the Departments of Pulmonary Medicine and Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, respectively. Study participants will be divided in two equal arms 1:1 in a double-blind manner. One of the investigators blinded to their clinical data will assign each participant to PR service either i) with constant supplementary oxygen supply FiO2 50% regardless of saturation status Group A) or ii) without oxygen supply unless upon resting or exercise induced hypoxemia (saturation \<88%) (Group B).

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