- Recommendation ID
- NG78/3
- Question
Monitoring pulmonary disease:- Is lung clearance index a useful and cost-effective tool for the routine assessment and monitoring of changes in pulmonary status in people with cystic fibrosis?
- Any explanatory notes
(if applicable) Why this is important:- Assessing the severity of lung disease is difficult in younger children. Not all children under 5 years can do spirometry tests and they are not sufficiently sensitive in people with good lung function, where CT scans can show pulmonary status changes before spirometry changes. A simple, sensitive and reproducible measurement such as lung clearance index allows assessment of respiratory status in people with cystic fibrosis, and could improve clinical decision-making.
Source guidance details
- Comes from guidance
- Cystic fibrosis: diagnosis and management
- Number
- NG78
- Date issued
- October 2017
Other details
| Is this a recommendation for the use of a technology only in the context of research? | No |
| Is it a recommendation that suggests collection of data or the establishment of a register? | No |
| Last Reviewed | 31/10/2017 |