1. Respiratory Function Test

Respiratory Notes Lung Function

Respiratory and Cardiovascular Function

HEATH and Whitaker 1 applied the term hypertensive pulmonary vascular disease to patients with chronic, severe pulmonary hypertension. They emphasized that this disease is a distinct clinicopathologic entity with uniform clinical features and characteristic morphologic changes of the pulmonary arteries and arterioles irrespective of the etiology of the hypertension. The vascular changes indicat...

Respiratory function after pneumonectomy.

The Effects of Pioglitazone on Respiratory Function Test in Patients with Asthma and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus- A before –after Study

Objective: Pioglitazone is one of the oral medications of type 2 diabetes (T2DM). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of pioglitazone on asthma and diabetes treatment outcomes among patients with concurrent asthma and T2DM. Materials and Methods: We conducted a quasi-experimental study on 11 patients with concurrent asthma and T2DM in Yazd Afshar Hospital and Yazd diabetic res...

Fungal infections of the Respiratory Tract-Section 1

Fungal infections of the Respiratory Tract are important causes of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised hospitalized patients. Among these patients are those receiving cytotoxic chemotherapy for neoplastic diseases, those undergoing bone marrow stem cell transplantation or organ transplantation, and those affected with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Invasive Aspergillosis has ...