Exhaled breath condensate pH in lung transplant recipients with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome

Transplantation

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 793-797

  Soter, Szabolcs ^a   Kelemen, Krisztina ^a   Barta, Imre ^a   Valyon, Marta ^a   Csiszer, Eszter ^a   Antus, Balazs ^a  

^a NATIONAL KORANYI INSTITUTE OF PULMONOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Breath condensate; Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome; Lung; pH; Variability

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ACIDIFICATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXHALED BREATH CONDENSATE; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING;

ADULT; BREATH TESTS; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE;

EID: 79954924251     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31820d3bc3     Document Type: Article

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