INTRODUCTION: The functional evaluation has become increasingly important in the understanding and management of patients with interstitial lung diseases. The cardiopulmonary exercise test and the six-minute walk test ...

Detection of desaturations on the pulse oximetry signal is of great importance for the diagnosis of sleep apneas. Using the counting of desaturations, an index can be built to help in the diagnosis of severe cases of ...

Respiratory failure is usually present in clinical status of patients with advanced lung disease such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial lung disease (ILD) and pulmonary hypertension (PH). Long ...

Orr, Jeremy E., Erica C. Heinrich, Matea Djokic, Dillon Gilbertson, Pamela N. Deyoung, Cecilia Anza-Ramirez, Francisco C. Villafuerte, Frank L. Powell, Atul Malhotra, and Tatum Simonson. Adaptive servoventilation as treatment ...

Study Objectives Assess acute changes in nocturnal sleep oxygenation, sleep disordered breathing and symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) in healthy High Altitude (HA) sojourners. Methods Ten subjects born at Sea Level ...