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Keywords: A. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Body Mass Index; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Clinical death. Palliative care. Organ gift and preservation; Cohort Studies; Dyspnea; Dyspnea - physiopathology; Emphysema; Exercise Tolerance - physiology; Female; Forced Expiratory Volume - physiology; Forecasting; Gastroenterology. Liver. Pancreas. Abdomen; Humans; Intensive care medicine; Lungs; Male; Medical prognosis; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Mortality; Other diseases. Semiology; Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; Patients; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - mortality; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - physiopathology; Pulmonary Emphysema - mortality; Pulmonary Emphysema - physiopathology; Quality of Life; Questionnaires; Regression analysis; Residual Volume - physiology; Risk Factors; Smoking - physiopathology; Stomach. Duodenum. Small intestine. Colon. Rectum. Anus; Surgery; Tomography; Total Lung Capacity - physiology; Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio - physiology; Human; computed tomography; Lung disease; Intensive care; Prognosis; Respiratory disease; Chronic disease; Mortality; pulmonary function; Obstruction; Bronchus disease; Computerized axial tomography; Obstructive pulmonary disease; Emphysema; Resuscitation; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease