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ReviewTherapeutic advances in chronic disease2023

Fractional nitric oxide measurement in exhaled air (FeNO): perspectives in the management of respiratory diseases.

Beatrice Ragnoli, Alessandro Radaeli, Patrizia Pochetti, Stefano Kette, Jaymin Morjaria, Mario Malerba

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In one paragraph

Review in Therapeutic advances in chronic disease, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07606898 (Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide as Possible Non - Invasive Biomarker to Assess Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity), which is not on this map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07606898 active not recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide as Possible Non - Invasive Biomarker to Assess Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity

Typeobservational_patient_registrySponsorTanta UniversityRan2026 to 2026Enrolled200ConditionsObstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Beatrice RagnoliRespiratory Unit, S. Andrea Hospital, Vercelli, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5969-8501
Alessandro RadaeliDepartment of Emergency, ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Patrizia PochettiRespiratory Unit, S. Andrea Hospital, Vercelli, Italy.
Stefano KetteRespiratory Unit, S. Andrea Hospital, Vercelli, Italy.
Jaymin MorjariaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Harefield Hospital, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Harefield, UK.
Mario MalerbaRespiratory Unit, S. Andrea Hospital, Vercelli, Italy.
CTO Andrea Alesini · ITAzienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale degli Spedali Civili di Brescia · ITGuy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · GBUniversità degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro” · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exhaled nitric oxide (NO) production, upregulated by inflammatory cytokines and mediators in central and peripheral airways, can be easily and non-invasively detected in exhaled air in asthma and other respiratory conditions as a promising tool for disease monitoring. The American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society released recommendations that standardize the measurement of the fractional exhaled NO (FeNO). In asthma, increased FeNO reflects eosinophilic-mediated inflammatory pathways and, as a biomarker of T2 inflammation can be used to identify asthma T2 phenotype. In this setting its measurement has shown to be an important tool especially in the diagnostic process, in the assessment and evaluation of poor adherence or predicting positive response to inhaled corticosteroids treatment, in phenotyping severe asthma patients and as a biomarker to predict the response to biologic treatments. The discovery of the role of NO in the pathogenesis of different diseases affecting the airways and the possibility to estimate the predominant site of increased NO production has provided new insight on its regulatory role in the airways, making it suitable for a potential extended use in clinical practice for different pulmonary diseases, even though its role remains less clear than in asthma. Monitoring FeNO in pulmonary obstructive lung diseases including chronic bronchitis and emphysema, interstitial lung diseases, obstructive sleep apnea and other pulmonary diseases is still under debate but has opened up a window to the role NO may play in the management of these diseases. The use of FeNO is reliable, cost effective and recommendable in both adults and children, and should be implemented in the management of patients with asthma and other respiratory conditions.

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asthma managementcentral and peripheral airwaysfractional exhaled nitric oxiderespiratory diseases

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PMID37538344
PMCPMC10395178
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