Spirometry appears to be a simple and inexpensive method to measure disorders of the respiratory tract. In reality however, a simple spirometry test requires knowledge and skill to correctly conduct and evaluate the test and its results. This review addresses common misunderstandings in using, evaluating and reporting spirometry results in Occupational Health practice, clinical medicine and res...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the spirometry findings in patients undergoing bone marrow transplant, determining the importance of such findings in predicting postoperative pulmonary complications and looking for correlations with postoperative outcomes. METHODS The spirometry findings in 120 male and female patients, all above the age of 12, were evaluated retrospectively and compared in terms of the...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary function tests are valuable measures for diagnosis and management of respiratory diseases. In the field of occupational medicine, spirometry is commonly performed, and in a considerable number of spirometries during occupational health evaluations, restrictive pattern is observed without any respiratory symptoms and may necessitate referral of the subject for body plethysmo...

Spirometry enables the diagnosis and monitoring of multiple respiratory diseases, such as asthma chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In this paper, we present an optical fiber-based device to evaluate capacity individuals through spirometry. The proposed system consists fiber containing intrinsic Fabry–Perot interferometer (FPI) micro-cavity attached a 3D printed structure that conver...

features specific for UIP such as a patchwork pattern of interstitial fibrosis, fibroblastic foci, and honeycomb change2,3 are readily recognizable in many TBB specimens.3 We agree that in these small specimens one may not identify discordant pathology. However, since the prognosis associated with “discordant” or “concordant” UIP is the same, recognizing the UIP findings will dictate the ultima...

Primary care spirometry is a uniquely valuable tool in the evaluation of patients with respiratory symptoms, allowing the general practitioner to diagnose or exclude chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sometimes to confirm asthma, to determine the efficacy of asthma treatment and to correctly stage patients with COPD. The use of spirometry for case finding in asymptomatic COPD patient...