Spirometry in patients screened for coronary artery disease: is it useful?
Frederico Leon Arrabal FernandesRegina Maria de Carvalho PintoRaphael StelmachJoão Marcos SalgeCarlos Eduardo RochitteEliane Cardoso Dos Santos SouzaJanaina Danielle PessiAscédio José RodriguesPublished in: Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia (2019)
The prevalence of spirometric abnormalities appears to be high in patients undergoing cardiac CT for CAD screening. Smokers, elderly individuals, and patients with CAD are at an increased risk of lung function abnormalities and therefore should undergo spirometry. (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01734629 [http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/]).
Keyphrases
- lung function
- coronary artery disease
- cystic fibrosis
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- patients undergoing
- air pollution
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- cardiovascular events
- computed tomography
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- chronic kidney disease
- left ventricular
- risk factors
- magnetic resonance imaging
- peritoneal dialysis
- type diabetes
- patient reported outcomes
- contrast enhanced
- magnetic resonance
- community dwelling
- aortic stenosis