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This paper discusses the possibility of the diagnosis of asthma in the elderly by measuring a gas, nitric oxide, exhaled during breathing
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The diagnosis of asthma in the elderly is very difficult because in addition to the atypical symptoms that commonly occur in the elderly, normal spirometry does not rule out doença.Os other tests are invasive and difficult achievement .A dosage of exhaled nitric oxide fraction (FENO) it is easy to perform and noninvasive.
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This page is a summary of: Fraction of exhaled nitric oxide measurements in the diagnoses of asthma in elderly patients, Clinical Interventions in Aging, May 2016, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/cia.s94741.
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