A. Lo Mauro

TL;DR: Accurate measurement of chest wall volume can identify the different patterns of respiratory muscle activation during exercise, and dynamic hyperinflation is not the only mechanism limiting exercise performance in patients with stable COPD.

TL;DR: Posture and gender have a strong influence on breathing and on chest wall kinematics and breathing pattern and the effect of posture on abdominal kinematic was significant only in women.

TL;DR: Nebulised salbutamol improved forced expiratory flow in most patients with COPD, but less hyperinflated patients tried to reduce the abdominal compartmental volume after active treatment and this reduced their exercise capacity.

TL;DR: There are three distinct patterns of CRF in patients with PF, CF and COPD adopted by the ventilatory pump to cope with the underlying lung disease that may explain why patients withPF and CF are prone to respiratory failure earlier than patients with COPD.

TL;DR: Chest wall motion during spontaneous breathing in awake conditions and in supine position is an important indicator of the degree of respiratory muscle impairment in DMD and ΔVAB is not only an important marker of the progression of the disease but is an early indicator of nocturnal hypoxaemia.