The importance of slow vital capacity in detection of airway obstruction

R. Barros, P. Pinto, C. Bárbara (Lisboa, Portugal)

Source: Annual Congress 2013 –Expiration, exhalation and exhaustion: measures of dynamic volumes, breath analysis and respiratory muscles
Disease area: Airway diseases

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