When you arrive for a spirometry test, the technician performing the test will give you verbal instructions on the steps you will take throughout the process. A full pulmonary function test takes ...

Early antiretroviral therapy in children with perinatal HIV alleviated HIV-related lung function abnormalities and ...

Existing methods to evaluate lung function such as spirometry are limited by the need to perform forced exhalations ... full-term children with healthy lungs were utilized to enable effective ...

Allergists and pulmonary specialists shall be excluded. Staff who report that they have personally performed > 100 spirometry tests during the previous 5 years shall be excluded. PCPs who have ...

Spirometry measures how well a person’s lungs are working. Source: Juice Flair / Shutterstock A lung function test, also called spirometry, measures how well a person’s lungs are working.

Background: Exercise is an important component of pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with chronic lung ... Methods: Cardiorespiratory fitness was measured by a maximal treadmill test (MTT), and ...

Take a big deep breath in, up, up, up, up! Suck it in – blow hard! Blast out fast! Blow it out, blow it out, blow it out, blow, blow, blow. Breathe deep, up, up, up, up and catch your breath He ...

Preterm infants are vulnerable to pulmonary dysfunction and other respiratory disorders. While impulse oscillometry (IOS) is ...

To investigate this, researchers followed a cohort of 1173 young adults from age 21 to age 30, testing their lung function using a spirometry assessment at the beginning and end of the 9 year period.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the CF transmembrane regulator (CFTR) gene, leading to progressive lung disease and systemic complications. Lung disease ...