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A Reversible, Non-invasive Method for Airway Resistance Measurements and Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Sampling in Mice
Published on: April 13, 2010
[Significance of bronchospasm in the development of bronchial obstruction in lung diseases]
Abstract:
VC, FVC, FEV1/VC%, PEF, MEF25, MEF50, MEF75 were studied in 254 patients with lung diseases with bronchial obstruction before and after berotec and antrovent inhalation. Bronchospasm was detected in most patients with bronchial asthma, in a half with exogenous allergic alveolitis, in more than a third with chronic bronchitis and pulmonary tuberculosis, and in a fifth with pulmonary sarcoidosis. In most examinees with bronchospasm, the proportion of the latter in bronchial obstruction amounted to 61-100%.
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