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Functional lung rejuvenation in obese patients after bariatric surgery

Summary Objective: To determine the lung age (LA) in obese people before and after bariatric surgery, compare the LA with the chronological age (CA) before and after the peration, and verify whether there was a functional pulmonary rejuvenation after it. Methods: A prospective longitudinal study includ...

Trasplante pulmonar en niños y adolescentes: Experiencia Clínica Las Condes

Objective: To assess the outcome of patients ≤ 20 years old subjected to lung transplantation. Methods: Retrospective analysis of clinical records of these patients at Las Condes Clinic, Santiago de Chile. Results: Ten patients ≤ 20 years old have been subjected to lung transplantation. The m...

Benefit of educational feedback for the use of positive expiratory pressure device

BACKGROUND: Positive expiratory pressure (PEP) is regularly used as a self-administered airway clearance technique. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the need to teach the correct use of the PEP device and to measure the progress of the success rate of the maneuver after training. METHOD: ...

Factibilidad de la interpretación de espirometrías en preescolares según criterios ATS/ERS

Rev. chil. pediatr; 86 (2), 2015
Introducción: La espirometría es el examen más utilizado para evaluar la función pulmonar. El año 2007 se publicaron guías que definieron criterios de aceptabilidad y repetibilidad para su realización e interpretación en preescolares. Nuestro objetivo fue describir las espirometrías de pacientes...

Test de caminata de seis minutos y función pulmonar en pacientes con bronquiolitis obliterante post infecciosa

Introduction: Post-infectious bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) is a chronic respiratory disease that is established as a consequence of a lung infection produced by adenovirus. The clinical and radiological evidence as well as spirometric variables are the cornerstones of diagnosis; however, the functional ...

Genetic polymorphisms and asthma: findings from a case - control study in the Madeira island population

Biol. Res; 47 (), 2014
BACKGROUND: Asthma is a complex disease influenced by multiple genetic and environmental factors. While Madeira has the highest prevalence of asthma in Portugal (14.6%), the effect of both genetic and environmental factors in this population has never been assessed. We categorized 98 asthma patients acco...

Adaptações do sistema respiratório referentes à função pulmonar em resposta a um programa de tratamento muscular pelo método de Reeducação Postural Global

Valores funcionales respiratorios pre y post- operatorios en pacientes sometidos a resección pulmonar
Preoperating and postoperating respiratory functional values in patients submissive of lung volume reduction surgery

Se realizó un estudio observacional, analítico, prospectivo, en el período 2006-2008, en el Hospital Neumológico Benéfico Jurídico, con el objetivo de comparar los valores predictivos espirométricos de los enfermos candidatos a resección pulmonar con los obtenidos después de la intervención qui...

Nomogramas de ecuaciones de referencia espirométrica SER 2009
Spirometric nomograms for Chilean normal adults

As a result of the availability of programmes to detect and treat respiratory disease in Chile there has been a greater use of spirometry in diagnosis. To be able to correctly interpret spirometry results there must be reference patterns which, ideally come from the same population in which they will be ...

Exacerbaciones en pacientes ex-fumadores con enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica: efectos clínicos y funcionales a corto plazo

Acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) are associated with decline of FEV1 and health related quality of life. Our aim was to evaluate the short-term effects of AECOPD on several functional and clinical indices in a cohort of 60 ex-smokers patients with COPD. During a 6-month follow up, 40 patients experie...