Achieving sufficient concentrations of antituberculosis (TB) drugs in pulmonary tissue at the
optimum time is still a challenge in developing therapeutic regimens for TB. A …

Background Biologic predictors or biomarkers of survival in pulmonary fibrosis with a worse
prognosis, more specifically in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis would help the clinician in …

Objectif. The objective of this literature review is to gather all the LFT norms available for the
Tunisian population, as well as QDV questionnaires specific to chronic respiratory patients …

Purpose 129Xe MRI and MRS signals from airspaces, membrane tissues (M), and red blood
cells (RBCs) provide measurements of pulmonary gas exchange. However, 129Xe …

Background Although airborne fine particulate matter (PM) pollution has been demonstrated
as an independent risk factor for pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases, their currently …

Our objective was to create reference values for single-breath DLNO based on a sample of
non-smoking healthy males and females using a short breath-hold time. The sample …

Background The passage of carbon monoxide (CO) through the alveolocapillary membrane
and into the plasma and intraerythrocytic compartments determines the diffusing capacity of …

Background Sarcoidosis is a multiorgan granulomatous disease with a variable course.
Oobjectives The purpose of this study is to identify the patients that are more likely to …

Lung diffusing capacity has been reported variably in high-altitude newcomers and may be
in relation to different pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR). Twenty-two healthy volunteers …

Background Morbidly obese individuals may have impaired alveolar-membrane diffusing
capacity (DmCO). The purpose of this study was to measure pulmonary diffusing capacity for …