Different Diffusing Capacity of the Lung for Carbon Monoxide as Predictors of Respiratory Morbidity

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 405-411

  Cerfolio, Robert J ^a   Bryant, Ayesha S ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA BASE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; URINE RETENTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARBON MONOXIDE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY DIFFUSING CAPACITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 67650720331     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.04.015     Document Type: Article

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