Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine

Sonia Rouatbi

Publications

• Research Article
  Thorax and Abdomen Motion Analysis in Patients with Obstructive Diseases
  Author(s): Aïcha Laouani, Sonia Rouatbi, Saad Saguem and Pascale CalabreseAïcha Laouani, Sonia Rouatbi, Saad Saguem and Pascale Calabrese
  
  Objective: We evaluated changes in bronchoconstriction by a new approach based on respiratory inductive plethysmography (RIP) signal analysis. Methods: Thoracic and abdominal motions were recorded (5 min) by uncalibrated RIP in 44 adult subjects with a diagnosis of moderate bronchial obstruction (Obstructive group) and 50 healthy adult controls (Healthy group). In the Obstructive group, two series of measurements were performed before (Obstructive PRE) and after (Obstructive POST) a bronchodilation protocol. Airway resistance (Raw) and lung function data (forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1 ) and FEV1 /FVC) were measured with a body plethysmograph. A breath-bybreath analysis was performed to calculate distances between normalized thorax and abdomen RIP signals and a mean distance (D) was calculated for e.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-105X.1000313

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