Sentence examples for obstruction test from inspiring English sources

Due to anatomical conditions, both the brachioradial muscle and the muscles of the thenar eminence can be easily subjected to the vascular obstruction test (see below).

16 The diagnosis of asthma is made after accurate history-taking from the patient and a clinic visit, along with lung function tests including spirometry, a bronchial obstruction reversibility test, and a nonspecific bronchial challenge test.

Statistical differences in the frequency of airway obstruction were tested using Chi-square tests, or Fisher Exact test when the numbers were too low.

Lung-function tests revealed an impaired vital capacity (2.08 l or 54% of reference value), ruled out obstruction (Tiffenau test: 77.7% of maximum vital capacity or 103% of reference value).

All patients with airflow obstruction on testing who were receiving bronchodilators before spirometry continued to receive them after testing.

All patients with airflow obstruction on testing who were receiving bronchodilators before spirometry (28 of 36 with irreversible and 9 of 11 with reversible obstruction) continued to receive them after testing.

One primary care-based clinical study found that almost half of their patients with a physician diagnosis of COPD did not have airflow obstruction when tested by spirometry [ 34].

Even after the machine no longer attracted crowds, the company was still fined regularly for obstruction until a test case was taken to appeal and their right to work from the streets was upheld by the Lord Chief Justice.

In the cases of iatrogenic or postoperative stenoses as well as chronic obstruction, a probatory test balloon angioplasty was performed to evaluate adequate stent size.

The suggestion that it is the over-activity of the sympathetic system that underlies some of the obstruction needs further testing.

Clinicians taking care of these patients should also have a low threshold to order radiological investigations to rule out the presence of biliary obstruction and serological tests to rule out the presence of hepatitis and other types of infections that can induce cholestasis.