Assessment of the alveolar volume when sampling exhaled gas at different expired volumes in the single breath diffusion test

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Prediletto, Renato ^a   Fornai, Edo ^a   Catapano, Giosuè ^a   Carli, Cristina ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATH ANALYSIS; BREATH HOLDING; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXHALATION; EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; EXPIRATORY RESERVE VOLUME; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG VENTILATION DISTRIBUTION; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESIDUAL VOLUME; SPIROMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VOLUME; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

AGED; BREATH TESTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXHALATION; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY VENTILATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDUAL VOLUME; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

EID: 39049149931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-7-18     Document Type: Article

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