Pulmonary Function Testing
Objective effect manifestation of pectus excavatum on load stressed pulmonary function testing: a case report
... ventilatory function further, as normal subjects can, when the chest wall is burdened by an added elastic load ...diseases. Pulmonary function testing while standing upright and carrying a ...
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Drugs potentially affecting the extent of airways reversibility on pulmonary function testing are frequently consumed despite guidelines
... Pulmonary function testing (PFT) usually includes an assessment of the forced expira- tory volume in one second (FEV 1 ) before and after inhalation of a ...
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Lung mechanics and pulmonary function testing in cetaceans
... 1973). Pulmonary function testing and assessment of changes in gas exchange are established methods to assess respiratory disease in humans and ...
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Preoperative Exercise Testing Is a Better Predictor of Postoperative Complications than Pulmonary Function Testing for Patients with Lung Cancer
... on pulmonary function testing (PFT) undergo additional testing, such as diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLco) and cardiopulmonary exercise testing ...(PPO) ...
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Infant Pulmonary Function Testing and Phenotypes in Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
... a pulmonary function testing laboratory, in the long-term, it would be helpful to develop easier bedside testing to differentiate these phenotypes, and we suggest that this should be a focused ...
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Pulmonary Function Testing in Cement Transport Workers at Incheh Borun Border, Northeast of Iran
... Another research conducted on dust exposure and respiratory health effect in cement produc- tion. A respiratory symptoms questionnaire was completed and pulmonary function tests were carried out on 94 ...
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Pulmonary function testing in HTLV-I and HTLV-II infected humans: a cohort study
... However, whether HTLV-I or HTLV-II alters pulmonary function is unknown. Such information is important because the pathologic spectrum of these chronic human retroviral infections has not been completely ...
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Pulmonary Function Testing in Neuromuscular Disorders
... 3. Gozal D. Pulmonary manifestations of neuromuscular disease with special reference to Duchenne muscular dystrophy and spinal muscular atrophy. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2000;29(2):141–150 4. Papastamelos C, Panitch HB, ...
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Pulmonary function testing and chest tomography in patients with acromegaly
... These authors believe that occlusion or luminal narrow- ing of the airways associated with age may occur at the level of the secondary pulmonary lobule, causing the appearance of air trapping areas. It is ...
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Pulmonary Function Testing Reference Values and Interpretations in Pediatric Training Programs
... To define abnormality, most used an 80% predicted cutoff for forced vital capacity, forced.. expiratory volume in 1 second, and forced expiratory flow.[r] ...
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A study of pulmonary function abnormalities in obese individuals
... Demographic characteristics of the patients was shown in Table 1. Mean age of the patients was 13.320 years. Out of 40 patients, 23(57.5%) were females and 16(40.3%) were males. All the study subjects underwent ...
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Study of pulmonary function tests in patients with hypothyroidism
... The main instrument used in pulmonary function testing is the spirometer. It is designed to measure changes in volume and can only measure lung volume in chambers that exchanges gas with the ...
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Assessment of Pulmonary Function by Spirometry in Antenatal Cases
... in pulmonary function testing, but little has been applied to antenatal women particularly in our environment and it is hoped that our work in this area will help to refine the ...
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Pulmonary Function After Correction of Scoliosis Angle
... and pulmonary function test (PFT) measurements before the surgery and also underwent surgery at least 6 months prior to the commencement of this study with no significant intrathoracic complications like ...
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Non-invasive biomarkers and pulmonary function in smokers
... Subjects underwent EBC, exhaled NO, respiratory function tests (IOS, plethysmography and spirometry), methacholine challenge and induced sputum assessments in that order (visit 1). One week later, all smokers ...
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Pulmonary function in patients with Huntington’s Disease
... and pulmonary function variables (inspiratory capacity: IC, slow vital capacity: SVC, forced vital capacity: FVC, forced expiratory volume in 1 second: FEV 1 , peak expiratory flow: PEF, maximum voluntary ...
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Imaging Biomarkers of Pulmonary Structure and Function
... of pulmonary function test and subject ...of pulmonary function data was performed under the supervision of Sandra Blamires and Lyndsey ...
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Local modulation of pulmonary vascular function
... 3 .1 Endothelium-dependent hypoxic vasoconstriction is not mediated by endothelin. The hypoxic response o f pulmonary arteries have been studied in many laboratories. With a few exceptions (Holden and McCall 1984; ...
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PULMONARY FUNCTION IN CYSTIC FIBROSIS OF THE PANCREAS
... ---physiologic dea(l space --respiratory dead space calculated from Bohr equation using arterial carbon dioxide tension,. and corrected for apparatus dead space.[r] ...
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Effects of Alcohol on Pulmonary Function in a Healthy Population
... other pulmonary infection but about the role of alcohol in airway diseases and airway resistance, a little information exists especially in healthy ...decreasing pulmonary function tests such as ...
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