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  • Title: Pulmonary function in asthmatic patients in remission.
    Author: Palmer KN, Kelman GR.
    Journal: Br Med J; 1975 Mar 01; 1(5956):485-6. PubMed ID: 236066.
    Abstract:
    Thirty-five asthmatic patients (average age 28 years) who attended a pulmonary function laboratory when their mean ratio of forced expiratory volume in one second: forced vital capacity was 81 per cent (within the normal range for their age group) had arterial hypoxaemia and hypocapnia. These were probably secondary to lung hyperinflation and pulmonary ventilation/perfusion imbalance. The pulmonary abnormalities of bronchial asthma are not always detected by simple spirometric tests and the results of such tests should be interpreted cautiously.
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