Pulmonary Function Tests
| Autor: | V. Bocchino, Giuseppina Bertorelli |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Lung Response to therapy business.industry Interstitial lung disease respiratory system Diagnostic evaluation medicine.disease Pulmonary function testing Functional residual capacity medicine.anatomical_structure Internal medicine medicine Cardiology Lung volumes sense organs Respiratory system business |
| Zdroj: | Diffuse Lung Disorders ISBN: 9781447134428 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-1-4471-3440-4_4 |
| Popis: | Structural changes in the lungs elicit changes in pulmonary function. In most diffuse lung diseases, respiratory symptoms generally develop insidiously because of alterations of the elastic and/or the flow-resistive properties of the lungs. These symptoms occur concurrently with disturbances of gas exchange. Most of the time, the physiologic alterations occur concomitantly with radiologic changes, but in some cases, symptoms and physiologic disturbances may be present without evidence of radiologic alterations. Thus physiological assessment is necessary in the diagnostic evaluation and also in the management, evolution, and response to therapy of patients with diffuse lung diseases. |
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