Aim. To develop a method for determining the lung inflation by indexes of forced expiratory flow­volume spirometry. Materials and methods. In 43 patients with mild persistent uncontrolled asthma in combination osmotic airway hyperresponsiveness, function were assessed spirometry using bronchodilation test bodyplethysmography. Results. From entire set parameters, regression analysis, two equatio...

Tuberculosis-related lung damage is very different. Lung ventilation disorders have been studied in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) during the active process and after treatment, but main causes of gas exchange changes not sufficiently studied. Investigation diffusing capacity combination bodyplethysmography useful for interpretation disorders. The aim was to determine relationship va...

introduction: recently a relation between female sex hormones and severity of asthma symptoms has been proposed. as a common endocrine dysfunction, polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) could significantly influence the level of sex hormones in pcos patients. regarding the possible role of sex hormones in airway physiology, the present study was conducted to survey the effects of pcos on pulmonary f...

BACKGROUND Due to large-scale destruction, changes in membrane diffusion (Dm) may occur in cystic fibrosis (CF), in correspondence to alterations observed by computed tomography (CT). Dm can be easily quantified via the diffusing capacity for nitric oxide (DLNO), as opposed to the conventional diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO). We thus studied the relationship between DLNO as well a...

This work elucidates the questions upon the development of a new drug-free method of a respiratory diseases treatment. Halotherapy (HT)--is mode of treatment in a controlled air medium which simulates a natural salt cave microclimate. The main curative factor is dry sodium chloride aerosol with particles of 2 to 5 mkm in size. Particles density (0.5-9 mg/m3) varies with the type of the disease....

The aim of present study was to establish the relationship between level blood serum cytokines and indexes pulmonary function as well identify markers evolving dysfunction small airways in obese patients with partially controlled mild bronchial asthma. We have examined 53 asthma clinical course complicated obesity (I-II degree). control group consisted 25 healthy volunteers. All participants un...

INTRODUCTION At present, COPD is known to be a systemic disease resulting from generalized inflammation which affects the function of many organs. Generalized inflammation is recognized from increased serum concentration of inflammatory cytokines. The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of inflammatory process on the respiratory impairment in patients with stable chronic o...

BACKGROUND The Global initiative for chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) defines COPD as a fixed post-bronchodilator ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 second and forced vital capacity (FEV1/FVC) below 0.7. Age-dependent cut-off values below the lower fifth percentile (LLN) of this ratio derived from the general population have been proposed as an alternative. We wanted to assess the di...

BACKGROUND Aortic arch anomalies (AAA) are rare cardio-vascular anomalies. Right-sided and double-sided aortic arch anomalies (RAAA, DAAA) are distinguished, both may cause airway obstructions. We studied the degree of airway obstruction in infants with AAA by neonatal lung function testing (LFT). PATIENTS AND METHODS 17 patients (10 RAAA and 7 DAAA) with prenatal diagnosis of AAA were invest...

Український пульмонологічний журнал. 2005, No 3 (додаток) 1.0 INTRODUCTION The detection of lung function disturbances has a great value in health and disease. We use the lung function tests in the diag nosis and monitoring procedures in different lung diseases and in general medicine. These methods are also very useful in qualifica tion of patients before thoracic surgery interventions, to det...