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Breath test

About: Breath test is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2731 publications have been published within this topic receiving 76430 citations. The topic is also known as: breath tests.


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TL;DR: The octanoic acid breath test is a reliable noninvasive test to measure gastric emptying rate of solids and would be applicable to field testing.

929 citations

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TL;DR: The high endogenous urease activity of Campylobacter pylori was exploited in a non-invasive test for the presence of this organism in the stomach and each positive breath test proved to be correlated with a positive culture or Warthin-Starry silver stain of a mucosal biopsy specimen, or both.

683 citations

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TL;DR: Normalization of LBT with neomycin leads to a significant reduction in IBS symptoms, and the type of gas seen on LBT is also associated with IBS subgroup.

648 citations

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01 Jun 2003-Chest
TL;DR: Compared to healthy volunteers, patients with primary lung cancer had abnormal breath test findings that were consistent with the accelerated catabolism of alkanes and monomethylated alkanes, and a predictive model employing nine VOCs exhibited sufficient sensitivity and specificity to be considered as a screen for lung cancer in a high-risk population such as adult smokers.

553 citations

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TL;DR: The noninvasive UBT and IgG serology test are as accurate in predicting H. pylori status in untreated patients as the invasive tests of CLO and Warthin-Starry.

548 citations


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Performance
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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202340
202279
202165
202051
201950
201854