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Chest, Vol 72, 762-768, Copyright © 1977 by American College of Chest Physicians

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New tests for the detection of obstructive pulmonary disease

JR Rodarte, RE Hyatt, K Rehder and HM Marsh

Abnormalities in small airways appear to be important in the evolution of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Patients with these pathologic lesions may have normal values for airway resistance and forced expiratory volume in one second. Two new tests, the closing volume (CV) and the dependence of maximal flow on density, are believed to be sensitive to abnormalities in the peripheral airways. The CV test detects an increased nonuniformity of changes in volume of pulmonary units. Reduced dependence of flow on density is believed to result from an increase in the peripheral component of the losses of driving pressure which determine maximal expiratory flow. Both tests differentiate smokers with normal conventional spirometric data from age-matched nonsmokers. Although this evidence suggests that these tests can be used to detect abnormalities in small airways, there is very little pathologic confirmation of this belief. The clinical significance of abnormalities in the results of either of these tests in an otherwise normal person has not yet been determined.


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