Bronchodilators and Bronchial Challenge Testing When a patient undergoes pulmonary function tests for the first time, it is almost always worthwhile to have spirometry performed before and after the administration…
Diffusing Capacity of the Lungs An important step in the transfer of oxygen from ambient air to the arterial blood is the process of diffusion, that is, the transfer of…
Static (Absolute) Lung Volumes Measures of the so-called static (or absolute) lung volumes are often informative.1 The most important are the vital capacity (VC), residual volume (RV), and total lung…
Spirometry: Dynamic Lung Volumes Spirometry is used to measure the rate at which the lung changes volume during forced breathing maneuvers. The most commonly performed test uses the forced expiratory…
Introduction Pulmonary function tests can provide important clinical information, yet they are vastly underused. They are designed to identify and quantify defects and abnormalities in the function of the respiratory…
Number of patients 63 Age at treatment onset; mean ± SD, range (years) 10.5 ± 4.3, 0.5–17.5 Gender; males/females 36/27 Etiology, number of patients Idiopathic factors 45 (71.4 %) Toxic exposure 6 (9.5 %) Seronegative hepatitis…
Sociodemographic and behavioral variables Non-carriers of N. meningitidis (n = 527) Carriers of N. meningitidis (n = 32) p Age Mean ± SD 30.2 ± 4.8 29.3 ± 4.4 0.407 Range 21.0–52.0 22.0–43.0 Median 29.0 29.0 95 % CI 29.8–30.6 27.7–30.9…
Hemodialyzed (n = 55) Healthy (n = 55) R NR R NR A/H1N1 65 35 95 5 A/H3N2 89 11 89 11 B 80 20 75 25 Data are % of subjects Further…
, A. Nitsch-Osuch2, K. Preisner1 and L. Szenborn1 (1) Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Medical University of Wrocław, 44 Bujwida St., Wroclaw, Poland (2) Department of Family Medicine, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland…
Fig. 1 Infections caused by influenza and influenza-like viruses causing respiratory disease in Poland in 2010–2011 epidemic season; investigated within the I-MOVE project The results show that influenza and other…
