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Measuring lung function earlier in life would help identify people at risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and allow for more timely interventions, according to a new study ...

What are pulmonary function tests? Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are tests of lung function. They are intended to evaluate and monitor chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is ...

Hypercapnic patients were best separated from normocapnic patients using thresholds for FVC% of 56% predicted and 33% predicted for FEV1%. Hypercapnia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

CIGARETTE smoke has been found to be closely related to the increased incidence of pulmonary cancer. 1 The epic work of Auerbach et al. 2 on the effects of smoking on the tracheobronchial epithelium ...

MILAN -- Research presented at this year's annual European Respiratory Society congress included early successes in transplanting a patient's own lung cells to ease chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

IODIZED oil (Ethiodol) infused directly into the lymphatic vessels permits radiographic visualization of remote lymph nodes in the pelvis and retroperitoneum and has proved to be valuable in the ...