To diagnose chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), doctors typically use spirometry to measure your lung function. They usually also perform other tests to monitor the damage to your lungs.

2 Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia 3 School of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia Rationale ...

Specific details of the ARIC study are published elsewhere.22 Our analysis was limited to CHS or ARIC participants who provided baseline information on respiratory symptoms and diagnoses, medical ...

However, in patients with more or less normal lung function parameters or where lung spirometry cannot perform adequately ... Patients were excluded from analysis if they had a history of symptomatic ...

Finally, bosentan, an endothelin receptor antagonist, has shown potential benefits in hemodynamic parameters for COPD patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) in experimental studies, though ...

The Amsler grid tests the condition of the center of the retina or "macula". It is a good test for screening for the development of "wet" macular degeneration in patients with "dry" macular ...

Several observers have commented that the subjective improvement was greater than the objective, as demonstrated by pulmonary-function tests. 8,15 This points up the necessity for employing ...

The seemingly ordinary news of wedding plans for a young man whom she knew as a child reminds this doctor of how far medicine has come in treating cystic fibrosis — it only took a village.

Radiologic controls were age-matched infants without known pulmonary disease ... but none of our patients had positive sweat chloride tests or the suggestive pathological exocrine-gland ...

Your doctor may recommend pulmonary rehabilitation ... 4 depending on how much lung function had decreased. Now, doctors combine the results of a lung function test with subjective measures ...

Pulmonary function tests indicated normal diffusion capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide and minor reductions in non-specific pulmonary ventilation function. Thyroid colour ultrasound detected ...