Lung Volume Measurements Methods
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13. Relation between distal airspace size, bronchiolar attachments, and lung function.
BACKGROUND--Smoking related fixed airway obstruction may be due to airway scarring and narrowing or decreased support due to loss of adjacent alveolar walls. In this study of resected specimens, preoperative pulmonary function was compared with results of a morphometric study of lung structure. METHODS--Morphometric measurements were made on 42 inflation fix
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14. Critical evaluation of computerised x ray planimetry for the measurement of lung volumes.
BACKGROUND--Computerised x-ray planimetry has been advocated as an alternative to body plethysmography and helium dilution for measuring static lung volumes. The accuracy and reproducibility of this method has been assessed in comparison with these standard methods. METHODS--Plethysmographic and planimetric measurements of total lung capacity (TLC) and funct
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15. Single lung alveolar volume and gas transfer: effect of expansion of the other lung.
BACKGROUND--Temporary occlusion of one mainstem bronchus permits measurement of single lung function. A previous study suggested that the volume at which one lung is occluded may influence the expansion of the other. The effect of ipsilateral occlusion volume on the contralateral effective alveolar volume (VA, EFF,SL), inspired volume (VI,SL), single breath
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16. Microscopic and macroscopic measurements of emphysema: relation to carbon monoxide gas transfer.
BACKGROUND: Studies of the relation between the severity of structural change in emphysema and physiological abnormality have been based on macroscopic assessments, which have not been truly quantitative or sensitive enough to detect early changes. With a highly reproducible method for measuring emphysema using histological sections and a semiautomatic image
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17. Lung function in white children aged 4 to 19 years: I--Spirometry.
OBJECTIVE--A study was performed to produce reference standards for spirometric lung function in white children and to calculate standard deviation scores adjusted for gender and pubertal stage. METHODS--A cross sectional study was made of 772 white children aged 4.6 to 18.8 years (455 male) tested on an OHIO 840 spirometer and assessed anthropometrically an
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18. Pre-employment lung function at age 16 years as a guide to lung function in adult life.
BACKGROUND--A study was conducted to find out if pre-employment lung function at age 16 improved the estimation of that between ages 25 to 27 compared with the use of reference values based on smoking history, stature, body mass index, and other concurrent anthropometric variables. METHODS--Apprentices attending a shipyard training school were assessed on si
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19. Radiographic, scintigraphic, and gas-dilution estimates of individual lung and lobar volumes in man.
We describe a method of separately determining the volumes of the right and left lungs from conventional chest radiographs and of determining the volumes of individual lobes and pathological spaces, whenever their boundaries are visible radiologically or can be displayed scintigraphically--for example, during fibreoptic bronchoscopy. Scintigrams of individua
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20. Use of lung pressure-volume curves and helium-sulphur hexafluoride washout to detect emphysema in subjects with mild airflow obstruction
Mild abnormalities of peripheral lung function can be detected by simple methods, but it remains difficult to determine when these changes are the result of emphysema rather than disease of the airways. We have compared the value of measurements of lung distensibility and a multibreath test of helium (He) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) washout in distinguish
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21. Relationship of lung function loss to level of initial function: correcting for measurement error using the reliability coefficient.
The regression of lung function change on the initial lung function level is biased when the initial level is measured with random error. Several methods have been proposed to obtain unbiased estimates of regression coefficients in such circumstances. We apply these methods to examine the relationship between lung function loss over 11 years and its initial
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22. Can lung function measurements be used to predict which patients will be at risk of developing interstitial pneumonitis after bone marrow transplantation?
BACKGROUND: Lung function often deteriorates after bone marrow transplantation for haematological malignancies. Whether pulmonary function measurements are useful for monitoring patients' progress after transplantation and for alerting clinicians to the development of pneumonitis is uncertain. METHODS: Serial pulmonary function measurements were made in 39 p
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23. Pattern of lung volumes in patients with sighing breathing.
BACKGROUND--Sighing breathing is observed in subjects suffering from anxiety with no apparent organic disease. METHODS--Lung volumes and expiratory flow rates were measured in 12 patients with a sighing pattern of breathing and in 10 normal subjects matched for age, gender, and anthropometric data. In both groups the measurements were made by spirographic an
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24. Internal surface area and other measurements in emphysema
Some measurements of emphysema were made on 29 pairs of non-emphysematous lungs and 44 pairs of emphysematous lungs inflated at a standard transpulmonary pressure of 25 cm. of formalin. These were: a subjective visual assessment (units); an assessment of the volume of the lung parenchyma involved by emphysema (point count); an average subjective visual gradi