Comparison of exhaled breath condensate pH using two commercially available devices in healthy controls, asthma and COPD patients

Respiratory Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Koczulla, Rembert ^a,b   Dragonieri, Silvano ^a   Schot, Robert ^a   Bals, Robert ^b   Gauw, Stefanie A ^a   Vogelmeier, Claus ^b   Rabe, Klaus F ^a   Sterk, Peter J ^a,c   Hiemstra, Pieter S ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EXHALED BREATH CONDENSATE; EXHALED BREATH CONDENSATE ANALYSIS DEVICE; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PH MEASUREMENT; BREATH ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXHALATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; ASTHMA; BREATH TESTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXHALATION; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650987822     PISSN: 14659921     EISSN: 1465993X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1465-9921-10-78     Document Type: Article

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