[Pediatric spirometry as a prognostic test of adult obstructive bronchopneumopathy].
Authors study the spirometry of 40 asthmatic children between 6 and 12 years in age. Spirometric determination was performed immediately after the asthmatic attack and also at least 15 days after the last attack. The cases have been subdivided into four groups for what concerns Tiffeneau's index and Mottly's index. The group of subjects with abnormal Tiffeneau's and Mottly's indices is of particular interest. There exists probably in such subjects a beginning emphysema that might lead up, at the adult age, to a picture of obstructive bronchopneumopathy.
D001249:Asthma / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000503:physiopathology; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011379:Prognosis; D013147:Spirometry
La spirométrie en pédiatrie comme test pronostique des broncho-pneumopathies obstructives de l'adulte