Age and height dependence of lung clearance index and functional residual capacity

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1371-1377

  Lum, Sooky ^a   Stocks, Janet ^a   Stanojevic, Sanja ^a,c   Wade, Angie ^a   Robinson, Paul ^a,d   Gustafsson, Per ^e   Brown, Meghan ^c   Aurora, Paul ^a,b   Subbarao, Padmaja ^c   Hooe, Ah Fong ^b   Sonnappa, Samatha ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^e CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Children; Functional residual capacity; Lung clearance index; Reference values; Ventilation inhomogeneity

Indexed keywords

SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LUNG CLEARANCE; LUNG CLEARANCE INDEX; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETER; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878792913     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00005512     Document Type: Article

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