Assessing the reversibility of airway obstruction

R Pellegrino, JR Rodarte, V Brusasco - Chest, 1998 - Elsevier
… flow-volume curve (PEFV) and inspiratory capacity (IC) detect functional responses to
bronchodilator in patients who do not meet the FEV 1 criteria for reversibility of airway obstruction. …

Assessment of reversibility of airway obstruction in patients with chronic obstructive airways disease.

M Nisar, M Walshaw, JE Earis, MG Pearson… - Thorax, 1990 - thorax.bmj.com
… The use of the term reversibility of airways obstruction is fraught with difficulty. In common …
Our data show that reversibility in the second sense occurs frequently in patients with …

Assessment of reversibility of airflow obstruction.

JA Van Noord, J Smeets, J Clement… - American journal of …, 1994 - atsjournals.org
assess reversibility of airflow obstruction was compared with that of indices of forced expiration
and plethysmographic airway … the diagnosis of reversible airways obstruction. Chest 1992;…

Determining the optimal time to assess the reversibility of airway obstruction

J El Ghoul, M Abouda, M Triki, A Ghourabi, R Charfi - Lung India, 2019 - journals.lww.com
… Spirometric reversibility testing classifies the airway obstruction as … of this work was to
define the optimal BDR time to assess the reversibility or nonreversibility of airway obstruction. …

Use of the forced oscillation technique to assess airway obstruction and reversibility in children

C Delacourt, H Lorino, M Herve-Guillot… - American journal of …, 2000 - atsjournals.org
… We assessed the FOT method for detecting airway obstruction and its reversibility in the
pediatric setting. The study consisted of three phases: (1) a study of the whole population to …

Criteria for the assessment of reversibility in airways obstruction: report of the Committee on Emphysema American College of Chest Physicians

GL Snider, CR Woolf, RC Kory, J Ross - Chest, 1974 - journal.chestnet.org
… Measurable reversibility is likely if the patient gives a history of considerable variability in …
assessment of reversibility. The most acceptable criteria for reversibility in airways obstruction

Effect of age upon airway obstruction and reversibility in adult patients with asthma

V Bellia, F Cibella, G Cuttitta, N Scichilone, G Mancuso… - Chest, 1998 - Elsevier
… In a cross-sectional study we evaluated the effect of aging (separately from that of
duration of disease) on airway obstruction and reversibility by comparing two groups of non-smoker …

Assessment of reversibility in patients with chronic airflow obstruction

MJ Barros, PJ Rees - International Journal of Clinical Practice, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
… The aim of this review is to highlight the main problems found when measuring reversibility
in such patients, the different factors that influence the reversibility testing and the biases …

The utility of spirometry in the diagnosis of reversible airways obstruction

HR Smith, CG Iroin, RM Cherniack - Chest, 1992 - Elsevier
… By these definitions, we believe that our study group is derived from a population that
indeed has reversible airways obstruction and is representative of patients with RAO sent for …

Comparison of the forced oscillation technique and the interrupter technique for assessing airway obstruction and its reversibility in children

C Delacourt, H Lorino, C Fuhrman… - American journal of …, 2001 - atsjournals.org
… The detection of airflow obstruction and its reversibility is a … the assessment of airway
obstruction and its reversibility after … of bronchial obstruction and its reversibility in children as …