Exhaled Ethane, Nitric Oxide, and Condensate as Markers for Lung Injury
Because inflammation can injure or destroy tissues and cells, detecting it quickly and accurately can provide needed-sometimes life-saving-treatments. Certain types of inflammation-causing injuries can release gases that can be measured in the person's exhaled breath. A non-invasive method to measure these gases may lead to a simpler way of determining the presence of disease and the person's response to treatment.
Over the past several years, researchers have developed techniques to measure exhaled gases and other substances, found them gases to be altered in several lung diseases, and shown that exhaled substances can help to predict how a patient's disease will behave.
In this study, the researchers seek to further refine the methods by which they measure exhaled substances and apply those methods to healthy and ill people. The goal is to determine whether markers in a person's exhaled breath can show which patients should receive treatment and how these patients will respond to the treatments given.
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Primary focus: Immunology |
