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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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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