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Table of Content - Volume 5 Issue 3 - March 2017


 

Correlation of breath holding time with spirometry test - An alternative non technician dependent surrogate test for spirometry

 

Vipin Aggarwal1*, Gauri Godbole2, Shubhangi Agawane3, Himanshu Pophale4, Pankaj Magar5,  Ruchita Killedar6, Bharat Toshniwal7

 

{1Resident, 2Professor and HOD, 4Associate Professor, 5Assistant Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine}

{3Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine and Department of Clinical R&D} SKNMC, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA.

6Assistant Professor, Department of physiotherapy, LSFPEF’s College of Physiotherapy, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA.

7Assistant Professor, , Department of Respiratory Medicine SKNMC and GH Narhe, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA.

Email: dr.vipin17@gmail.com

 

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