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Pulmonary function in patients with pleural effusion of varying magnitude and fibrothorax
C T Liu1, A Cellerino, S Baldi
1Servizio di Fisiopatologia Respiratoria, Ospedale S. Giovanni Battista, Torino, Italy.
Panminerva Medica
|April 1, 1991
Abstract:
Pulmonary function was studied in sixty patients with pleural effusion and seventy patients with fibrothorax. The patients with pleural effusion were divided into three groups according to the extent of the effusion. The patients were submitted to spirometry and arterial blood gas analysis. The effects of pleural effusion on pulmonary function is evaluated with regards to the size of effusion. Small-size pleural effusion little affects arterial oxygen tension. Pleural effusion and fibrothorax have a similar pattern of pulmonary function.