A comparison of pulmonary function in bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive bronchitis
| Autor: | M. L. Diament, K.N.V. Palmer |
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| Rok vydání: | 1970 |
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Male Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine Spirometry medicine.medical_specialty Vital capacity Adolescent Pulmonary function testing Diagnosis Differential FEV1/FVC ratio DLCO Internal medicine medicine Humans Lung volumes Chronic obstructive bronchitis Bronchitis Child Lung Aged Asthma Carbon Monoxide medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Respiration Articles Carbon Dioxide Middle Aged respiratory system medicine.disease Respiratory Function Tests respiratory tract diseases Oxygen Anesthesia Chronic Disease Cardiology Female business circulatory and respiratory physiology |
| Zdroj: | Thorax. 25:101-104 |
| ISSN: | 0040-6376 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/thx.25.1.101 |
| Popis: | The dynamic and static lung volumes, arterial blood-gas tensions, and single-breath carbonmonoxide transfer factor have been compared in 72 asthmatic and 45 bronchitic patients with airways obstruction of comparable severity to determine which measurements might be used to discriminate between the two diseases. The forced vital capacity, total lung capacity, arterial carbon-dioxide tension, and transfer factor were useful in this respect. Thus, in a patient with airways obstruction the finding of a low% predicted FVC (115) with a nearly normal Dlco and a normal or low Paco2 is most compatible with a diagnosis of bronchial asthma. |
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