For many decades, requiring patients to make forced, maximal exhalations to measure their expiratory volumes and flows, has been the standard of care for pulmonary function testing (PFT).
Usmani, Os Abstract The small airways have been neglected for many years, but interest in the topic has been rekindled with recent advances in measurement techniques to assess this region and also the ability to deliver therapeutics to the distal airways. Current levels of disease control in asthmatic patients remain poor and there are […]
Aim: To determine reference equations for respiratory system resistance and reactance in a large randomly selected sample from a general, predominantly Caucasian population.
Claudia Calogero MD, Shannon J. Simpson PhD, Enrico Lombardi MD, Niccolò Parri MD, Barbara Cuomo MD, Massimo Palumbo MD, Maurizio de Martino MD, Claire Shackleton BSc (Hons), Maureen Verheggen MMedSc, Tania Gavidia MIH, Peter J. Franklin PhD, Merci M.H. Kusel MBBS, PhD, Judy Park MBiostat, Peter D. Sly DSc, Prof. Graham L Hall PhD Abstract Background The forced oscillation technique (FOT) can be used in children as young […]
Bożena Nowowiejska MD, Waldemar Tomalak PhD, Jakub Radliński PhD, Grzegorz Siergiejko MD, Wojciech Latawiec PhD, Maciej Kaczmarski MD, PhD Abstract Impulse oscillometry (IOS) is a technique of assessing mechanical properties of respiratory system by means of measuring resistances and reactances in a number of frequencies during tidal breathing. It is especially useful in preschool children, however has […]
Ellie Oostveen1, Krisztina Boda2, Chris P.M. van der Grinten3, Alan L. James4, Sally Young4, Hans Nieland5 and Zoltán Hantos2 Affiliations: ¹Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. ²Dept of Medical Physics and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary. ³Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, and […]
