Trials of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) treatments targeting declining lung or upper limb function, which are typically limited to nonambulatory patients, could also include ambulatory patients, ...

AI echocardiography using multimodal right ventricular assessment predicted mortality in pulmonary hypertension. Learn more.

Good breathing is at the heart of good health. When asthma or shortness of breath appears, a person might be sent for pulmonary function tests. Arlene Dunlap of Piscataway, N.J. knows those tests well ...

Researchers review pulmonary function testing measures that span 4 categories that can assess the respiratory muscle dysfunction that happens in diseases like spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Muscle ...

What are pulmonary function tests? Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are tests of lung function. They are intended to evaluate and monitor chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A smartphone-based tool that employs acoustic sensing and machine learning techniques is set to undergo testing.

Pulmonary function testing serves 2 important clinical goals: (1) categorizing the physiologic impairment from lung disease (ie, obstructive, restrictive, etc) and (2) quantifying the degree of ...

There are many different types of pulmonary function tests that may be used to provide valuable information about the lungs, as well as detect the presence of and/or monitor certain respiratory ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Clinicians need to remember that a patient’s reported race includes social factors in addition to genetics. In ...