Diurnal variation in forced vital capacity in patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease using home spirometry

Catharina C Moor; Carlijn A L van den Berg; Lidewij S Visser; Joachim G J V Aerts; Vincent Cottin; Marlies S Wijsenbeek

doi:10.1183/23120541.00054-2020

Diurnal variation in forced vital capacity in patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease using home spirometry

ERJ Open Res. 2020 Apr 6;6(1):00054-2020. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00054-2020. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Authors

Catharina C Moor¹, Carlijn A L van den Berg¹, Lidewij S Visser¹, Joachim G J V Aerts¹, Vincent Cottin^{2

3}, Marlies S Wijsenbeek¹

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, University Hospital Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
² National Reference Coordinating Center for Rare Pulmonary Diseases, Louis Pradel Hospital, Lyon, France.
³ Hospices Civils de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France.

Abstract

This study demonstrates a diurnal variation in FVC measured with home spirometry in patients with f-ILD, with a higher FVC in the morning than in the afternoon http://bit.ly/37SQtBK.