title: Post-operative flow-volume loops.
abstract: A study of flow-volume curves pre- and post-operatively demonstrated a marked difference between bronchitic and non-bronchitic patients. All bronchitic patients showed lower flow rates at low lung volumes post-operatively, when compared with their pre-operative values. Non-bronchitic patients all had higher flow rates for the same comparison.
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000601:surgery; D001991:Bronchitis / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008449:Maximal Expiratory Flow-Volume Curves; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000503:physiopathology*