Double tracer gas single-breath washout: Reproducibility in healthy subjects and COPD

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1210-1222

  Husemann, Kim ^a   Berg, Nina ^a   Engel, Jennifer ^a   Port, Johannes ^b   Joppek, Christoph ^b   Tao, Ziran ^b   Singer, Florian ^c   Schulz, Holger ^d   Kohlhäufl, Martin ^a  

^a ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOUBLE TRACER GAS SINGLE BREATH WASHOUT TEST; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LUNG CLEARANCE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NITROGEN WASHOUT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; BREATH ANALYSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; TIDAL VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; VITAL CAPACITY; YOUNG ADULT;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREATH TESTS; CARBON MONOXIDE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; TIDAL VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAL CAPACITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928985501     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00085713     Document Type: Article

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