What is it about?
It is a study that evaluates lung damage in children undergoing chemotherapy with a new lung function test called multiple breath washout. The multiple breath washout allows to obtain the lung clearance index, a measure of lung damage. We have shown that children undergoing chemotherapy maintain good respiratory function.
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Why is it important?
This study is important as it allows us to evaluate lung damage with a more sophisticated method than spirometry.
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This page is a summary of: Lung clearance index for evaluation of late complications of cancer therapy in children, September 2019, European Respiratory Society (ERS),
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.congress-2019.pa399.
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