Breath Analysis: Comparison among Methodological Approaches for Breath Sampling.

ABSTRACT: Despite promising results obtained in the early diagnosis of several pathologies, breath analysis still remains an unused technique in clinical practice due to the lack of breath sampling standardized procedures able to guarantee a good repeatability and comparability of results. The most diffuse on an international scale breath sampling method uses polymeric bags, but, recently, devices named Mistral and ReCIVA, able to directly concentrate volatile organic compounds (VOCs) onto sorbent tubes, have been developed and launched on the market. In order to explore performances of these new automatic devices with respect to sampling in the polymeric bag and to study the differences in VOCs profile when whole or alveolar breath is collected and when pulmonary wash out with clean air is done, a

SUBMITTER: Di Gilio A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7763204 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature