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J Appl Physiol 72: 629-635, 1992;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 72, Issue 2 629-635, Copyright © 1992 by American Physiological Society

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Spectral content of forced expiratory wheezes during air, He, and SF6 breathing in normal humans

Y. Shabtai-Musih, J. B. Grotberg and N. Gavriely
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

The effect of gas density on the spectral content of forced expiratory wheezes was studied in the search for additional information on the mechanism of generation of respiratory wheezes. Five normal adults performed forced vital capacity maneuvers through four or five orifice resistors (0.4-1.92 cm ID) after breathing air, 80% He-20% O2, or 80% SF6-20% O2. Tracheal lung sounds, flow, volume, and airway opening (Pao) and esophageal (Pes) pressures were measured during duplicate runs for each orifice and gas. Wheezes were detected in running spectra of lung sounds by use of a frequency domain peak detection algorithm. The wheeze spectrograms were presented along side expiratory flow rate and transpulmonary pressure (Ptp = Pao - Pes) as function of volume. The frequencies and patterns of wheeze spectrograms were evaluated for gas density effects. We found that air, He, and SF6 had similar wheeze spectrograms. Both wheeze frequency and patterns (as function of volume) did not exhibit consistent changes with gas density. Speech tone, however, was substantially affected in the usual pattern. These observations support the hypothesis that airway wall vibratory motion, rather than gas phase oscillations, is the source of acoustic energy of wheezes.


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