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Introduction: Pulmonary function testing, or spirometry, is a validated, globally recognized test that contributes to the diagnosis, staging, and longitudinal follow-up of lung diseases. The exam is ...

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, ...

Dr. Miranda Theodore (Medicine): A 28-year-old woman was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) of this hospital because of progressive respiratory failure. The patient had been in her usual ...

Significant gaps persist, however, in the implementation of race-neutral PFT equations in the United States and worldwide, because race has long been embedded in PFT interpretation. Moreover, the ...

Last July, a team of physicians and researchers successfully proposed modifications to the American Medical Association (AMA) Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, advocating against the ...

Objective: To investigate the correlation between tidal breathing pulmonary function parameters combined with mixed exhaled gas nitric oxide values and the degree of airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) ...

Quantum mechanics describes the unconventional properties of subatomic particles, like their ability to exist in a superposition of multiple states, as popularized by the Schrödinger's cat analogy, ...