Our hypothesis that COPD patients on the mild side of the severity spectrum differ from patients on the severe side regarding the association between their bronchodilator flow and volume responses was confirmed. The difference is probably explained by the higher degree of loss of lung elastic recoil and/or compression of the smaller airways due to enlarged air spaces that accompanies the progression of COPD to the more severe stages.

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Introduction. One of the basic premises of sonographic lung imaging is

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