Share on Pinterest PongMoji/Getty Images Spirometry is an important tool for diagnosing and determining treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ... measures lung function and records ...

Preserved ratio impaired spirometry (PRISm) is associated with an increased risk of all-cause, cardiovascular, and respiratory mortality.

Office spirometry is considered to be a ... including asthma, restrictive lung and chest wall diseases, neuromuscular diseases, and cardiac disease. When airway obstruction is identified in ...

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.

Likewise, it makes sense to promote accurate and objective diagnostics for a disease as widespread as COPD. Spirometry assesses three dimensions of lung function: forced expiratory volume in one ...

Restrictive lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis make ... provider figure out what condition (or conditions) you may have ...

Researchers reported that a lung MRI technique that uses inhaled gas can identify early patchy lung defects in patients with ...

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In a recent study, Mass General Brigham researchers demonstrated that through low-cost genetic samples that can be obtained from a cheek swab or blood test, they can improve identification of people ...

Lung ultrasound (LUS) may be an effective screening tool for interstitial lung disease in patients with asymptomatic rheumatoid arthritis.