Respiratory oscillometry is gaining global attention over traditional pulmonary function tests for its sensitivity in detecting small airway obstructions. However, its use in clinical settings as a di...
In this work, we developed many machine learning classifiers to assist in diagnosing respiratory changes associated with sarcoidosis, based on results from the Forced Oscillation Technique (FOT), a no...
We used genetic programming in its traditional tree form and a grammar-based form. To check if interpretable results are competitive, we compared their performance to K-Nearest Neighbors, Support Vect...
The proposed system may provide decision support for clinicians when they are struggling to give a confirmed clinical diagnosis. Clinicians may reference the prediction results and make better decisio...
In preschoolers, asthma control is assessed clinically using history and physical examination. In certain centres, oscillometry is used to support clinical assessment; yet its clinical utility for ast...
The utility of the forced oscillations technique (FOT) in cystic fibrosis (CF) remains uncertain. The aim of this study was to explore the ability of lower-frequency FOT indices, alone and after adjus...
Forty-five children, adolescents, and adults with CF (age 6.9-27 years) underwent spirometry, FOT, and nitrogen multiple-breath washout (N2-MBW) measurements. The respiratory resistance and reactance ...
The sGrs correlated well with the lung clearance index (LCI) (Spearman's r: -.797), whereas the correlation of Rrs5 and Xrs5 with the LCI, albeit significant, was weaker (r: .643 and -.631, respective...
In CF patients, the FOT indices at 5 Hz and the novel, volume-adjusted parameter sGrs, reflect the extent of lung involvement and the underlying ventilation inhomogeneity in a way comparable to N2-MBW...
Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood. Spirometry is the traditional test for assessing lung function, while impulse oscillometrics is an alternative resource that measures th...
A cross-sectional study in which the pulmonary function of asthmatic children and adolescents aged between 6 and 18 years was evaluated, categorized by the level of disease control according to the As...
A total of 130 asthmatic children and adolescents were evaluated (51% were males). There were no significant differences in the parameter values of both tests when patients were divided by the level o...
Impulse oscillometry values showed a weak or moderate correlation with spirometry values....
While optimizing spirometry is a challenge for lung function labs, long-term variability if any between IOS (impulse oscillometry) parameters and spirometry is not clearly known in stable COPD (chroni...
We used data from 73 patients with stable COPD and 119 patients with stable asthma at the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University. Patients were included if they had three or more ...
(1) The repeatability of IOS resistance parameters with ICC values > 0.8 was high in COPD and asthma. ICC values of IOS resistance parameters were higher than IOS reactance parameters; (2) the repeata...
IOS resistance parameters have good long-term repeatability in asthma and COPD. Additionally, repeatability of spirometry parameters is lower than IOS resistance parameters in different GOLD stages....
To investigate the relationship between aortic stiffness and postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)....
This study included 110 patients undergoing elective isolated CABG. Aortic stiffness was measured using a noninvasive oscillometric sphygmomanometer before surgery. Characteristics of patients with an...
POAF developed in 32 (29.1%) patients. Patients with POAF were older (63.7±8.6 vs. 58.3±8.4; P=0.014). Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was more common in patients with POAF (11.5% vs. 37....
COPD, PWV, and PP are predictors of POAF. PP and PWV, easily measured in office conditions, might be useful for detecting patients with a higher risk of POAF....
Mechanisms underlying lung dysfunction after preterm birth are poorly understood. Studying phenotypes of prematurity-associated lung disease may aid understanding of underlying mechanisms. Preterm-bor...
Preterm-born children, born at gestation of 34 weeks or less, were classified into those with prematurity-associated obstructive lung disease (POLD; FEV...
From 241 participants aged 7-12 years, complete data were available from 179: 15 children with POLD and 11 with pPRISm were compared with 93 preterm and 60 term controls. POLD group, when compared to ...
Preterm-born children with obstructive airway disease had the greatest oscillometry impairments and the largest improvements after postexercise bronchodilator compared to control groups. Oscillometry ...
The body posture can influence gas exchange, respiratory mechanics, and mucociliary clearance and different positions can be used as a therapeutic strategy to improve in gas exchange and can also help...
The IOS parameters were evaluated in seated (Se), right lateral decubitus (RL), left lateral decubitus (LL), and supine (Su)....
Sixty two volunteers were allocated in obese group (OG) or eutrophic group (EG) according to BMI. In seated position, OG showed higher impedance than EG for R5: 0.55 (0.31; 0.93) and 0.33 (0.24; 0.52)...
The respiratory system impedance is increased in OG, with greater contribution of peripheral resistance. The higher values of resistance and reactance were obtained in the supine position, in both gro...
