PFTs

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How do you read a PFT with restrictive type spirometry but normal lung volumes?

What clinical significance does this have and how do you follow these patients?

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Do you always comment on VA and KCO when reading PFT's when gas transfer is ordered?

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Do you favor the use of maximal inspiratory/expiratory pressure measurement or supine spirometry in the evaluation of a patient with suspected respiratory muscle weakness?

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Do you diagnose obstruction by the criteria of FEV1/FVC < 70% or < LLN?

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What is your approach to the monitoring and management of a never-smoker with respiratory symptoms and a nonspecific ventilatory pattern on pulmonary function testing?

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Papers discussed in this category

N Engl J Med, 2022 Sep 04

Bronchodilators in Tobacco-Exposed Persons with Symptoms and Preserved Lung Function.

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