Respiratory mechanics in chest wall disease: implications for expiratory flow limitation during resting breathing.
Expiratory flow limitation during tidal breathing in patients with severe obstructive pulmonary disease is a well recognized phenomenon. It may be present, however, also in patients with severe chest wall disease due to the fact that breathing takes place at reduced lung volume.
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Meakins-Christie Laboratories, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
D005540:Forced Expiratory Flow Rates; D006801:Humans; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000503:physiopathology; D015656:Respiratory Mechanics; D012143:Respiratory Physiological Phenomena; D012146:Rest / Q000502:physiology; D013896:Thoracic Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*