We studied 120 volunteers, 20 to 49 year old, equally divided into sex and smoking habit groups to assess the ability of lung function tests to discriminate smokers from non smokers. The subjects performed routine spirometry including helium dilution, body plethysmography, single breath nitrogen test...
For interpretation of pulmonary function tests (PFTs), reference values based on sex, age, height and ethnicity are needed. In Norway, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) reference values remain widely used, in spite of recommendations to implement the more recent Global Lung Function In...
However, researchers have rarely run simultaneous or side-by-side tests of whole-body and nose-only CS exposure in building their mouse models of COPD. We compared and evaluated these two different methods of CS exposure, plus airway Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) inhalation, in building our COPD ...
The impact of pulmonary function tests on early postoperative complications in open lung resection surgery: an observational cohort study Article Open access 24 January 2022 Impact of chronic respiratory diseases on re-intubation rate in critically ill patients: a cohort study Article Open access ...
TLC=total lung capacity; RV=residual volume; TLCO=carbon monoxide transfer factor; KCO=carbon monoxide transfer coefficient; PaO2=arterial oxygen tension; PaCO2=arterial carbon dioxide tension. Physiologic data on the endurance tests at 80% and 60% of the Wmax are presented in Table 2. The endu...
Introduction: The 6-min stepper test (6MST) has been used as an alternative to the 6-min walk test (6MWT) to assess exercise tolerance in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD). Recent data suggest that the tests may involve different energy pathways and cardiorespiratory responses. We...
METHOD AND MATERIALS Fifty-six subjects enrolled in the National Lung Screening Trial with pulmonary nodules depicted in low-dose MDCT were randomly selected. From eighty-nine nodules initially identified, we selected seventy-five nodules whose volumes were successfully segmented and measured with all ...
Ovarian reserve tests are performed by directly or indirectly assessing the decline in the number of follicles [32]. Ovarian reserve of histological assessment includes the ovary volume and weight, the number of corpuses luteum, the length of the estrous cycle, the follicle count, the ratio of ...
Lung hypoplasia was suggested after chest x-ray and lung functions tests. Therefore, this child was not classified as PPH patient. Genetic assessment could not be performed yet. In family 3067, the 23-y-old father (III-2) of the index patient (IV-1) showed echocardiographically an elevated...
For the cumulative density function analysis in Fig. 4j we used a two-sample Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. For both tests, ns indicates p ≥ 0.05 and significance is *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001 and ****p < 0.0001. Fitting of Gaussian distributions was done...