| Title: | Breath tests in respiratory and critical care medicine: from research to practice in current perspectives |
| Author(s): | Cheepsattayakorn A; Cheepsattayakorn R; |
| Address: | "10th Zonal Tuberculosis and Chest Disease Center, Chiang Mai, 10th Office of Disease Prevention and Control, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Chiang Mai 50100, Thailand" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2314-6141 (Electronic) 2314-6133 (Print) |
| Abstract: | "Today, exhaled nitric oxide has been studied the most, and most researches have now focused on asthma. More than a thousand different volatile organic compounds have been observed in low concentrations in normal human breath. Alkanes and methylalkanes, the majority of breath volatile organic compounds, have been increasingly used by physicians as a novel method to diagnose many diseases without discomforts of invasive procedures. None of the individual exhaled volatile organic compound alone is specific for disease. Exhaled breath analysis techniques may be available to diagnose and monitor the diseases in home setting when their sensitivity and specificity are improved in the future" |
| Keywords: | *Alkanes Asthma/*diagnosis/pathology Breath Tests/*methods Exhalation/physiology Humans Nitric Oxide/metabolism/physiology Sensitivity and Specificity Volatile Organic Compounds; |
| Notes: | "MedlineCheepsattayakorn, Attapon Cheepsattayakorn, Ruangrong eng Review 2013/10/24 Biomed Res Int. 2013; 2013:702896. doi: 10.1155/2013/702896. Epub 2013 Sep 18" |
