Pulmonary diagnostic tests are a series of tests which evaluate how well the lungs are performing. These tests may be performed to help diagnose disease, monitor disease progression or therapeutic ...
Background Pulmonary function testing provides important insight regarding health; the vital capacity (VC) is so named because of its association with survival and longevity. Interpretation of ...
If you are a smoker or former smoker you should have a simple lung-function test, called spirometry. That is the advice E. Rand Sutherland, M.D., M.P.H., and Reuben Cherniack, M.D., pulmonologists at ...