ABSTRACT: Background: Heart failure (HF) significantly impairs functional capacity. The six-minute walk test (6MWT) offers a simple, validated assessment tool, yet remains underutilized in sub-Saharan ...

Evaluation for pulmonary hypertension (PH) in patients with cancer must include either lung ventilation/perfusion scan or dual-energy computed tomography of the chest to evaluate for acute and/or ...

Of the 43% of study participants without pre-existing lung conditions, 70% had normal PFTs, 16% had obstructive pattern, 12% restrictive pattern, and 2.3% mixed pattern. After recovering from mild to ...

Credit: Getty Images The road to race-neutral pulmonary function testing has been long and evolving; now, ATS recommends this approach and a Boston hospital offers an implementation model. In July, ...

Background: While body composition impacts pulmonary function, the differential effects of visceral (VAT) vs. subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) in early-onset COPD remain unquantified. Objective: To ...

My recent pulmonary function test (PFT) results indicated a decline in all the areas it measured. That’s not unusual for me. In the spring, my PFT numbers had declined, as well, leading to a diagnosis ...

Last July, a team of physicians and researchers successfully proposed modifications to the American Medical Association (AMA) Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, advocating against the ...