Adventitious sounds are the medical term for respiratory noises beyond that of normal breath sounds. The sounds may occur continuously or intermittently and can include crackles, rhonchi, and wheezes.

Lung sounds can also help doctors make a diagnosis. Bronchial lung sounds are typically at a higher frequency in tone, but with certain infections, other sounds called adventitious lung sounds can ...

Chronic obstructive lung disease increases the expiratory phase of respiration. Hearing equal inspiratory and expiratory sounds suggests respiratory obstruction (Grancher's sign).

He was febrile (temperature 38.6°C), tachycardic, and dyspneic at rest. There was dullness to percussion over the right side of his chest that extended from the midzone to the base; coarse ...

The respiratory phenotype of FLNA -related disease is now considered to be a childhood interstitial lung disease. 21 The filamin A protein is thought to be important in the maturation of alveoli ...

As a result, when audio from the stethoscope is analyzed by a computer or mobile device running Respiratory Sounds Visualizer, the software is able to match up patients' lung noises with ...

Second, inflate the bronchial cuff, then clamp and disconnect the tracheal limb. If the bronchial limb is in the appropriate position, unilateral breath sounds will be heard on auscultation.

To learn more about smart devices that measure respiratory sounds and the impact they will have on care provided by pulmonologists, Healio spoke with review authors Steve S. Kraman, MD, FCCP ...