ReviewRespiratory care2023
The Role of Pulmonary Function Testing in the Diagnosis and Management of COPD.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Exercise and pulmonary embolism: a systematic review of exercise safety, feasibility and effectiveness.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025Pooled it
- Associations between dietary fat-soluble vitamins and pulmonary function and airway inflammation: A cross-sectional study.Medicine · 2026Article
- Expression and clinical significance of serum C-reactive protein and blood lactate levels in elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease complicated by acute lower respiratory tract infection.American journal of translational research · 2026Article
- Discriminative feature learning for multiclass lung disease classification using contrastive learning.Frontiers in radiology · 2026Article
- Spirometric Lung Function Patterns Across Body Mass Index Categories in Ghana: A Tertiary Care Perspective.Pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Pulmonary Function and Influencing Factor Investigation for Rural Homemakers in the Fenwei Plain, China.Toxics · 2025Article
- Year in Review: Pulmonary Function Testing.Respiratory care · 2025Review
- Heavy metals and their relationships with lung function and airway inflammation: insights from a population-based study.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Article
- Regional lung function assessment using electrical impedance tomography in COPD, PRISm, and normal spirometry subjects: insights into early diagnostic potential.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Article
- The burden and risk factors of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Asia and its countries from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis based on the 2021 global burden of disease study.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Assessing the Impact of New Technologies on Managing Chronic Respiratory Diseases.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Assessment of Metabolic Syndrome in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A 6-Month Follow-Up Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Pulmonary function testing (PFT) has a long and rich history in the definition, diagnosis, and management of COPD. For decades, spirometry has been regarded as the standard for diagnosing COPD; however, numerous studies have shown that COPD symptoms, pathology, and associated poor outcomes can occur, despite normal spirometry. Diffusing capacity and imaging studies have called into question the need for spirometry to put the "O" (obstruction) in COPD. The role of exercise testing and the ability of PFTs to phenotype COPD are reviewed. Although PFTs play an important role in diagnosis, treatment decisions are primarily determined by symptom intensity and exacerbation history. Although a seminal study positioned FEV
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