The physiologic approach to the clinical problem of airway obstruction is too often limited to
laboratory measurements made on one or a few occasions, on an individual patient or upon …

The terminology of chronic airway diseases is unsatisfactory and for this reason a functional
description is used here to include various pathological processes associated with airflow …

I was pleased to be asked by Dr. Petty to give this talk since it provides an opportunity to
make a few comments on the general problem of obstructive diseases of the airways. As …

Patients with chronic, irreversible airways obstruction of uncertain etiology have been
variously diagnosed as having" obstructive emphysema,"" chronic bronchitis," and even" …

In previous reports (1, 2) a wide range of clinical and physiologic manifestations of chronic
obstructive lung disease has been noted, and it has been suggested that this may be due to …

Six major manifestations of bronchitis and emphysema are cough, dyspnea, cyanosis,
P'Ulmonary hypertension, polycythemia, and heart failure. Whereas all of these have a" …

Methods Twenty-four male patients with chronic asthma or chronic airways obstruction were
divided into two groups on the basis of the presence or absence of subjective and objective …

THE CLINICAL signs of chronic bronchitis, asthma and emphysema were known long before
their functional basis had been elucidated. Even today, when the dynamics of diffuse airway …

A study of the relation between physical signs and the clinical and physiological pattern of
chronic lung disease with obstruction has been carried out on 24 patients with varying …

1. The term 'airflow obstruction'is commonly used to describe two different aspects of airways
disease:(a) a rise in airways resistance during ordinary quiet tidal breathing and (b) a …