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Chapter-07 Single-Breath DLCO, TLCO, DLCO/VA' and VA' Measures More Than Diffusion

BOOK TITLE: Pulmonary Function Testing & Interpretation

Author
1. Hansen James E
ISBN
9789350251058
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/11277_7
Edition
1/e
Publishing Year
2011
Pages
16
Author Affiliations
1. David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine, Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research institute, at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
Chapter keywords
Single-breath transfer factor for carbon monoxide, diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide, tracer gas, CO transfer, spirometry, alveolar phase, gas analyzers, alveolar partial pressures, exhaled gases, alveolar volume, non-continuous gas analyzers, ventilation, VA\'/TLC, respiratory bronchioles, alveolar capillaries, partial pressure, anemia, carboxyhemoglobinemia, breath-holding time, total lung capacity, residual volume, Ogilvie method, alveolar CO, barometric pressure, capillary concentrations, exhaled alveolar Ne, plethysmography, KCO, transfer coefficient, pulmonary capillaries, lung capillary perfusion, ventilated lung, congestive heart failure, restrictive lung disease, pulmonary vascular disease, erythrocythemia, alveolar membrane, hemoglobin, obesity, pulmonary capillary blood volume, pulmonary edema, interstitial lung disease, obstructive lung disease, chromic embolic disease, pulmonary vasculopathy, lung infarction

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