[Correlations of ventilation measurements with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency chronic suppurative bronchopneumopathies].
The corrleations of ventilometry and alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency were studied in a lot of 105 patients with chronic obstructive bronchopneumopathy associated with various forms of chronic pulmonary suppuration. Alpha-1-antitripsin deficiency was determined by Erikson's gelatin film test, simplified by Keith et al. Ventilation dysfunctions were found in 79% of the cases, predominantly obstructive, mixed, advanced or severe. Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency was detected in 11.4% of the patients as against 4.1% in the controls, the deficiency being more accentuated in the mixed (75%) and obstructive (25%) ventilation dysfunctions. Determination of alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, corroborated with other investigations may supply useful information for detecting a predisposition and for the evolutive prognosis of these respiratory diseases.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012119:Respiration; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests; D013492:Suppuration; D019896:alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency
Corelaţiile ventilometriei cu deficitul de alpha 1-antitripsină în bronhopneumopatiile supurative cronice