This is one of the most common pulmonary function tests. Spirometry measures how much air you can breathe in and out. It also measures how fast you can empty the air out of your lungs.

Spirometry helps diagnose breathing problems such as asthma and COPD

The most air you can breathe out after inhaling deeply. The results will let you know if you’re less able to breathe normally.

How much air you can exhale in 1 second. The score tells your doctor how severe your breathing problem is.

Smokers, bio fuel users and people exposed to air pollution are at highest risk of developing COPD. Since COPD is potentially progressive and fatal disease, early diagnosis and treatment is very important.

 Forced vital capacity (FVC). This is the amount of air exhaled forcefully and quickly after inhaling as much as you can.

Forced expiratory volume (FEV). This is the amount of air expired during the first, second, and third seconds of the FVC test.

Peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR). This is the fastest rate that you can force air out of your lungs.

maximum voluntary ventilation (MVV) .Formerly referred to as maximum breathing capacity, is a pulmonary function test (PFT) that measures the maximum amount of air a person can inhale and then exhale with voluntary effort

We are the one of the first day care clinic in Ahmedabad having DLCO machine.

The DLCO measures the ability of the lungs to transfer gas from inhaled air to the red blood cells in pulmonary capillaries. 

For the of early cases Lung Fibrosis and Pulmonary hypertension

What does low DLCO indicate?

A low DLCO indicates 

a loss of vasculature,

as seen in COPD;

or pulmonary vascular disease (ie, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

What does a high DLCO mean?

A high DLCO on a PFT is most frequently associated with

 large lung volumes,

obesity, and

asthma.

Other conditions are much less common. A clinical condition, which typically reduces DLCO, may deceptively normalize DLCO in such patients.