Breath tests cover the fraction of nitric oxide in expired gas (F ENO ), volatile organic compounds
(VOCs), variables in exhaled breath condensate (EBC) and other measurements. For …

Eosinophilic inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is predictive for
responses to inhaled steroids. We hypothesised that the inflammatory subtype in mild and …

There is a need for biological markers of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Exhaled breath contains hundreds of metabolites in the gas phase, some of which reflect (…

Background Asthma is a chronic inflammatory airway disease, associated with episodes of
exacerbations. Therapy with inhaled corticosteroids ( ICS ) targets airway inflammation, …

Background Severe asthma is a heterogeneous condition, as shown by independent cluster
analyses based on demographic, clinical, and inflammatory characteristics. A next step is to …

Many (multi-centre) breath-analysis studies require transport and storage of samples. We
aimed to test the effect of transportation and storage using sorbent tubes of exhaled breath …

The diagnosis of hospital-acquired pneumonia remains challenging. We hypothesized that
analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath could be used to diagnose …

The aim of this study was to assess the classification accuracy of an e-Nose in detecting acute
liver failure (ALF) in rats. Exhaled breath from 14 rats was repeatedly sampled by e-Nose (…

Background & aims Analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath, ‘volatomics’,
provides opportunities for non-invasive biomarker discovery and novel mechanistic …

… Knobel, Hans Weda, Teunis J. Vink, Tamara M. Nijsen, Craig … HH Knobel: wet lab analysis
(GC-MS). H. Weda: dry lab … Conflict of interest: HH Knobel has a patent “Inline drying of breath …