Variability of exhaled breath condensate pH in lung transplant recipients

Respiration

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 322-327

  Czebe, Krisztina ^a   Kullmann, Tamas ^a   Csiszer, Eszter ^a   Barat, Erzsebet ^a   Horvath, Ildiko ^a   Antus, Balazs ^a  

^a NATIONAL KORANYI INSTITUTE OF PULMONOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Exhaled breath condensate; Lung transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EXHALED BREATH CONDENSATE; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREATH TESTS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 41349111664     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000111819     Document Type: Article

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