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Changes in Blood Gas Tensions and Functional Residual Capacity Chronic Asthmatics Treated with Disodium Cromoglycate

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Journal Br Med J
Specialty General Medicine
Date 1969 Dec 20
PMID 5354873
Citations 1
Authors
D J Lane
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Abstract

Twenty chronic asthmatic subjects were treated with disodium cromoglycate in open trial. Although in the group as a whole spirometric findings improved, some patients showed a significant increase in arterial oxygen tension or a significant fall in functional residual capacity without any appreciable changes in spirometry. These changes may partly explain the clinical efficacy of this drug.

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