ReviewActa bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis2018
Lung function tests to monitor respiratory disease in preschool children.
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- Development and Preliminary Validation of the Breath Motor Pattern Index (BMPI): An Observational Measure of Respiratory Pattern Quality in Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- An expert opinion on the management of pediatric patients with wheezing and mild asthma: translating 2025 GINA strategy report into clinical practice in Italy.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2026Review
- Application of Interrupter Resistance and Spirometry Techniques in Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine: Feasibility and Concordance in Healthy Children Under 8 Years.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- The role of respiratory function tests in infants with stridor: diagnosis at glance and follow-up.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Association Between Triglyceride-Glucose Index and Lung Function Parameters in the General Population Undergoing Health Examinations.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2024Article
- Environmental and Behavioral Factors in Association with Lung Function Impairment in Children Living in Wuhan, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Changes in children's lung function over two decades in relation to socioeconomic, parental and household factors in Wuhan, China.Journal of thoracic disease · 2021Article
- Children With Asthma Have Impaired Innate Immunity and Increased Numbers of Type 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells Compared With Healthy Controls.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Article
- Difficult and Severe Asthma in Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Non-invasive measurements of respiratory system mechanical properties by the forced oscillation technique in spontaneously breathing, mixed-breed, normal term lambs from birth to five months of age.Physiological measurement · 2019Article
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Abstract
Pulmonary function tests are routinely used in the diagnosis and follow-up of respiratory diseases. In preschool children assessment and evaluation of lung function has always been challenging but improved techniques that require only minimal collaboration allowed obtaining reliable and useful results even in this group of patients. In this review we will describe the different techniques used in clinical practice to measure lung function in preschool children.
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