Carbon Monoxide Diffusing Capacity

Relative Importance of Diffusion and Chemical Reaction Rates in Determining Rate of Exchange of Gases in the Human Lung, With Special Reference to True Diffusing Capacity of Pulmonary Membrane and Volume of Blood in the Lung Capillaries

1957 • 983 citations

Effects of Obesity on Respiratory Function

1983 • 559 citations

Standardized single breath normal values for carbon monoxide diffusing capacity.

1981 • 499 citations

Normal Chest Roentgenograms in Chronic Diffuse Infiltrative Lung Disease

1978 • 480 citations

The diffusion of gases through the lungs of man

1915 • 422 citations

Morphometric estimation of pulmonary diffusion capacity

1970 • 377 citations

Clinical usefulness of the single-breath pulmonucy diffusing capacity test.

1961 • 283 citations

Single breath Carbon Monoxide Diffusing Capacity (Transfer Factor): Recommendations for a Standard Technique

1987 • 241 citations

Serial Pulmonary Function in Patients With Acute Heart Failure

1983 • 204 citations

The Diffusing Capacity as a Predictor of Arterial Oxygen Desaturation during Exercise in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

1984 • 178 citations

Clinical pulmonary function testing : a manual of uniform laboratory procedures

1984 • 168 citations

Physiologic diagnosis of subclinical emphysema.

1973 • 148 citations

The Single-Breath Carbon Monoxide Diffusing Capacity

1987 • 137 citations

Attachment for Automated Single Breath Diffusing Capacity Measurement

1973 • 114 citations

Lung Function – Assessment and Application in Medicine

1980 • 96 citations

Use of Pulmonary Function Tests in the Management of Sarcoidosis

1980 • 93 citations

Pulmonary function testing guidelines and controversies : equipment, methods, and normal values

1982 • 86 citations

Diffusing Capacity for Carbon Monoxide as a Predictor of Gas Exchange during Exercise

1987 • 83 citations

Smoking and pulmonary diffusing capacity.

1975 • 79 citations

Reference equations for the single-breath diffusing capacity. A cross-sectional analysis and effect of body size and age.

1985 • 69 citations

Pulmonary diffusing capacity measured at multiple intervals during a single exhalation in man

1977 • 60 citations

Pulmonary Function Tests Cannot Predict Exercise-Induced Hypoxemia in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

1988 • 55 citations

Improved accuracy and precision of single-breath CO diffusing capacity measurements

1981 • 49 citations

Diffusing capacity, specific diffusing capacity and interpretation of diffusion defects.

1975 • 49 citations

The National Institutes of Health Intermittent Positive Pressure Breathing trial--pathology studies. III. The diagnosis of emphysema.

1987 • 48 citations

Diurnal Variation of the Diffusing Capacity of the Lung: Is it Real?

1987 • 47 citations

Determination of severe impairment (disability) in interstitial lung disease.

1980 • 46 citations

Diurnal variation in pulmonary diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide.

1966 • 44 citations

The relationship between alveolar oxygen tension and the single-breath carbon monoxide diffusing capacity.

1986 • 40 citations

Pulmonary diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO).

1975 • 40 citations

Effect of Carboxyhemoglobin on the Single Breath Diffusing Capacity: Derivation of an Empirical Correction Factor

1979 • 39 citations

Pulmonary Function after Uncomplicated Myocardial Infarction

1977 • 37 citations

Use and Interpretation of the Single-Breath Diffusing Capacity

1980 • 37 citations

The Effect of Human Pregnancy on the Pulmonary Transfer Factor for Carbon Monoxide as Measured by the Single-Breath Method

1977 • 37 citations

The transfer factor (diffusing capacity) as a predictor of hypoxaemia during exercise in restrictive and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

1987 • 28 citations

Single Breath Diffusing Capacity in the Industrial Setting

1982 • 21 citations

Standardization of computation of single-breath transfer factor.

1985 • 20 citations

Diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide. The effects of different derivations of breathhold time and alveolar volume and of carbon monoxide back pressure on calculated results.

1985 • 20 citations

4. What does the transfer of carbon monoxide mean?

1982 • 18 citations

The Lung: Physiologic Basis of Pulmonary Function Tests

1987 • 17 citations

Effect of a simulated 3,048 meter altitude on the single-breath transfer factor.

1986 • 16 citations

Concanavalin A Dependent Cell-mediated Cytotoxicity (CDCMC) in Bronchoalveolar Lavage (BAL) Fluid of Patients with Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD)

1986 • 15 citations

Potential value of diffusing capacity per liter of lung volume (DL/VA) for early detection of alveolar capillary defects

1979 • 13 citations

Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity on Exercise.

1973 • 10 citations

Specific diffusing capacity (DL/VA) as a measure of the lung’s diffusing characteristics: Prediction formulas for young adults

1986 • 1 citations