Ventilation heterogeneity in smokers: role of unequal lung expansion and peripheral lung structure.
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DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00105.2020
Abstract: Smoking-induced ventilation heterogeneity measured at the mouth via established washout indices (lung clearance index LCI and alveolar mixing efficiency AME) potentially results from unequal expansion, which can be quantified by CT, and structural changes down… read more here.
Keywords: expansion; lung expansion; unequal lung; structure ... See more keywords