生理検査の最前線(4)

呼吸生理検査

川　本　　　仁*1　神　辺　眞　之*2
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Pulmonary Function Tests

Hitoshi KAWAMOTO, MD*1 and Masayuki KAMBE, MD*2

The spirometry has been most valuable pulmonary function test and it defines pulmonary physiology. But the spirometry has not been widely used by general physicians in Japan. The spirometry is effort-dependent test, so, they seem to keep it at a distance. It’s desirable that pulmonary function tests are effort-independent. We introduce some effort-independent pulmonary function tests and refer to analysis of exhaled breath condensate.
[Rinsho Byori 51 : 568〜573, 2003]

*1Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Hiroshima 734-8554

【Key Words】effort-independent pulmonary function tests(非努力性呼吸生理検査法)，negative expiratory pressure method(NEP 法)，exhaled temperature(呼気温度)，capnogram(カプノグラム)，cardiogenic oscillation(心原性脈波)，exhaled breath condensate(呼気液化物)

*1,2広島大学大学院医歯薬学総合研究科病態臨床検査医学(〒734-8554 広島市南区霞1-2-3)

E-mail :hitoship@hiroshima-u.ac.jp