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Table 2 Pulmonary function test data

From: Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: consideration of a clinicopathological entity in a series of Japanese patients

 

Case.1

Case.2

Case.3

Case.4

Case.5

TLC (L), %predicted (%)

4.09 (79.4)

2.90 (79.0)

5.97 (107.4)

3.69 (72.1)

2.9 (56.9)

FVC (L), %predicted (%)

2.50 (74.1)

1.41 (74.1)

3.24 (93.6)

2.14 (63.7)

2.12 (64.0)

FEV1 (L), %predicted (%)

2.06 (77.5)

1.33 (87.5)

3.20 (101.6)

2.11 (79.0)

1.67 (64.3)

FEV1.0/FVC

90.4

95

96.7

96.3

96.5

FRC (L), %predicted (%)

3.0 (75.2)

2.1 (101)

3.87 (85.6)

2.61 (67.3)

2.14 (51.8)

RV (L), %predicted (%)

1.97 (121.6)

1.42 (87.1)

2.82 (154.1)

1.55 (100)

1.38 (84.1)

RV/TLC (%), %predicted (%)

48.17 (120.2)

48.97 (145.1)

47.2 (120.7)

42.0 (107.2)

47.59 (111.2)

DLco (mL/min/mmHg), %predicted (%)

9.41 (74.2)

9.94 (76.8)

10.55 (71.3)

12.51 (96.1)

6.12 (55.1)

DLco/VA (mL/min/mmHg), %predicted (%)

3.04 (69.1)

4.42 (103.3)

2.10 (47.1)

4.42 (98.4)

2.78 (64.5)

  1. Abbreviations: TLC, Total lung capacity, FVC, Forced vital capacity, FEV, Forced expiratory volume, FRC, Functional residual capacity, RV Residual volume, DLco, Diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide, DLco/VA, Diffusing capacity divided by the alveolar volume.
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