behaviour of the respiratory system under stress on the basis of the lung carbon monoxide diffusing (DLCO) measured during effort in attempt to identify possible sub-clinical impairment.MethodsWere enrolled 20 SSc patients with limited forms (SScl) with normal pulmonary HRCT and 20 healthy controls...
Diffucing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO) is a commonly performed and clinically useful pulmonary function test that provides a quantitative measure of gas transfer in the lungs; it is often abnormal in patients with ILD. It has been known that there is a relationship between the development...
The DLCO may be a useful pulmonary function test to assist in the differentiation of CLAD phenotypes, especially when volumetric or radiologic measurements are unavailable.doi:10.1016/j.healun.2020.01.685D.R. DarleyJ. MaL. LevyE. Huszti
cardiopuimonary measures.Twenty patients with SSc with a baseline PASP a 45 mm Hg treated with bosentan (62.5 nig bid for ] month and then 125 bid for 11 months) were considered; all the patients underwent Doppler echocardiogram and complete pulmonary function tests (PFT) at baseline and ...