Pulmonary diagnostic tests are a series of tests which evaluate how well the lungs are performing. These tests may be performed to help diagnose disease, monitor disease progression or therapeutic ...

Researchers review pulmonary function testing measures that span 4 categories that can assess the respiratory muscle dysfunction that happens in diseases like spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Muscle ...

Good breathing is at the heart of good health. When asthma or shortness of breath appears, a person might be sent for pulmonary function tests. Arlene Dunlap of Piscataway, N.J. knows those tests well ...

Credit: Getty Images The road to race-neutral pulmonary function testing has been long and evolving; now, ATS recommends this approach and a Boston hospital offers an implementation model. In July, ...

Relationship of Strength of the Supporting Evidence to the Balance of Benefits to Risks and Burdens* Strength of Evidence Balance of Benefits to Risks and Burdens *OP = outpatient; ADL = activities of ...

Russell Winwood's chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnosis in 2011 was a brutal wake-up call. His second in less than a decade. The Brisbane native, who came to be known as the “COPD ...

Researchers from the Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep Disorders and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, studied the effects of yoga as a form of pulmonary ...

A repurposed drug reduced exertional desaturation and dyspnea by 62% and 27%, respectively, in patients with Covid-19 pulmonary sequelae, according to a recent Phase 3 study. In patients with ...

The number of rehabilitation sessions a patient underwent (12, 24, or 36) was linked to their Post COVID Functional Status score, days on IMV, and 6MWT distance. A supervised pulmonary rehabilitation ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Full pulmonary function tests contribute useful diagnostic information for evaluating patients with ...