The Vital Capacity in Pulmonary Emphysema
- 1 January 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 60 (1) , 61-65
- https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-60-1-61
Abstract
In a period of 5 years, 10 patients with considerable degree of obstructive or bullous emphysema were found to have vital capacities between 131 and 166% of predicted. A high vital capacity does not exclude the presence of advanced pulmonary emphysema. The findings in these 10 patients are summarized, two patients are reported to illustrate these observations.Keywords
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