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Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...

Young adults who vape regularly have significant cardiopulmonary abnormalities during exercise and impaired pulmonary vascular responsiveness.

The diffusion capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) is used to measure the body's ability to transfer oxygen across the alveolar-capillary membrane. [1] Internists use this test to identify ...

ABNORMALITIES of respiratory function have been observed in scleroderma. 1–5 However, little attention has been paid to the study of the pulmonary function of patients with systemic lupus ...

CIGARETTE smoke has been found to be closely related to the increased incidence of pulmonary cancer. 1 The epic work of Auerbach et al. 2 on the effects of smoking on the tracheobronchial epithelium ...

How Do I Know How Much Lung Disease I Have? If you have lung disease, there are a number of tests that will help you and your doctor determine the severity of your disease. Some of the most common ...