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Chest clinic
Images in Thorax
Extrathoracic hyperinflation
  1. Marie Bruyneel1,2,
  2. Vincent Ninane1,2
  1. 1 Chest Service, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
  2. 2 Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
  1. Correspondence to Dr Marie Bruyneel, Chest Service, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, 322 Rue haute, Brussels 1000, Belgium; marie_bruyneel{at}stpierre-bru.be

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-210804

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    An 82-year-old non-smoker man underwent evaluation for increasing dyspnoea. Clinical examination of the chest was normal but abdominal distension was noted. Pulmonary function test (PFT) revealed a significant increase in thoracic gas volume (TGV). Forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC) were reduced (table 1). Asthma was suspected on the basis of hyperinflation and …

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    • Contributors Both authors managed the patient and wrote the manuscript. Both authors have approved the final version of the manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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