INTRODUCTION Lung involvement is a common extra-articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that confers significant morbidity and mortality. The objective of the present study is to assess which respiratory symptoms and patient and disease characteristics are most highly associated with pulmonary function test (PFT) abnormalities in an RA patient cohort without clinical cardiovascular...

Introduction: According  to  the  latest  statistical  and  epidemiological  studies,  COPD  will  become  the  fourth  leading  cause  of  death  in  2030  worldwide.  Scientists  are  studying  on  methods  to  diagnose  COPD  in  the  patients  in  early  stages,  because  it  is  a  curable  and  preventable  disease  in  early  stages.  In  this  study,  evidences  of  hyperinflation  on  ...

Pulmonary Function Tests (PFTs) can used to analyze and screen respiratory conditions, counting COVID-19. Ponders have appeared that PFT variations from the norm are common in patients with severe  COVID-19, these anomalies related longer hospital stays worse outcomes. This was a prospective cross-sectional study, convenient sampling evaluate function of discharged one three COVID hospital...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES 1. To evaluate whether CT helps in the early diagnosis of pulmonary manifestations in SLE. 2. To study the pulmonary involvement and determine the incidence and type of pulmonary involvement. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty eight patients fulfilling ACR classification criteria for SLE were studied. Chest X-ray, pulmonary function tests (PFT), HRCT scan thorax were done. Inves...

A child receiving busulphan treatment for adult-type chronic myeloid leukaemia responded well for four years before the onset of complications leading to "busulphan lung'. Pulmonary function tests (PFT) were useful in monitoring the development of this condition and we recommended regular PFT for patient receiving busulphan treatment.

UNLABELLED Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are routinely used to assess lung function, but they do not provide information about regional pulmonary dysfunction. We aimed to assess correlation of quantitative ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) PET/CT with PFT indices. METHODS Thirty patients underwent V/Q PET/CT and PFT. Respiration-gated images were acquired after inhalation of (68)Ga-carbon nanopar...

BACKGROUND Among patients with obstructive lung disease, the correlation between clinical improvement and bronchodilator response is poor. Forced expiratory time (FET) may explain some discrepancy, but FET has received little attention. METHODS We analyzed change in FET during the 3 initial satisfactory flow-volume loops in 102 consecutive patients, 37 with normal spirometry and 65 with airfl...

The oral (PABA) pancreatic function test (PFT), the secretin-pancreozymin test and endoscopic retrograde pancreatography (ERCP) have been carried out in 32 patients with suspected chronic alcohol induced pancreatitis (CAIP) in order to evaluate which, if any, test was most likely to confirm the provisional diagnosis. Thirty one patients had changes of minimal (n = 6) moderate (n = 7) or advance...

BACKGROUND To reduce the mortality and morbidity rates of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, and to have an effective clinical management, it is important to monitor the progression of the disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the progression of lung disease in CF patients by means of assessing the correlation of the CT scoring system with clinical status and pulmonary function test at the...

OBJECTIVE To design a spirometry-based algorithm to predict pulmonary restrictive impairment and reduce the number of patients undergoing unnecessary lung volume testing. DESIGN Two prospective studies of 259 consecutive patients and 265 consecutive patients used to derive and validate the algorithm, respectively. SETTING A pulmonary function laboratory of a tertiary care hospital. PATIEN...