An overview on the significance of Restrictive Spirometry Pattern has been published in the Chest Journal, official pubblication of the American College of Chest Physicians. The restrictive spirometry pattern (RSP) is characterized by decreased FEV1 and FVC but a preserved FEV1/FVC ratio. Epidemiologic research has revealed a substantial portion of the general population with these abnormal...
The importance of measuring ventilation during the Six Minute Walk test in COPD patients has been confirmed in a study presented during the European Respiratory Society Congress in 2015 and published in the European Respiratory Journal. The study, performed at Ryazan Medical University (Russian Federation), focuses on the fact that low tolerance to physical exercise in patients with COPD is...
A new poster was presented during the 2015 ERS Conference and then published in the European Respiratory Journal, highlighting the importance of ventilatory analysis during the Six Minute Walk Test (6MWT) in COPD patients. The aim of the study was to investigate the respiratory responses during 6MWT in untrained COPD patients. Exercise performance of COPD is limited by ventilation (VE), in...
A new study on the European Respiratory Journal highlights the utility to add FOT testing to spirometry in subjects following toxic inhalation (for example the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster in 2001). Although many community members developed respiratory symptoms after World Trade Center destruction in 2001, screening spirometry was usually normal. The study hypothesises that forced...
An interesting poster presented during the 2014 ERS Congress features the importance of the six minute walk test with Spiropalm 6MWT in patients affected by fibrotic idiopathic interstitial pneumonias. Aim of the present study was to assess 6MWT performance with the Spiropalm device (that allows a combined evaluation of lung function parameters and pulse-oxymetry) in a group of patients...
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