Decreased exhaled nitric oxide in sickle
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Reda E. Girgis; Mohammed A. Qureshi; Judith Abrams; Paul Swerdlow
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A deficiency in airway nitric oxide (NO) could contribute to pulmonary vaso-occlusion in sickle cell disease (SCD). We measured the fractional expired concentration of NO (FE(NO)) by chemiluminescence during a slow vital capacity maneuver against a positive pressure of 16 cm H(2)O at an expiratory f