Low dlco

, i'm confident if someone has a similar experience or any wisdom to share that they will but in the meantime I thought this article on DLCO might be helpful for you: https://copd.net/clinical/diffusion-test. All the best, Sam S. (COPD.net, team member).

Hi missworld, and thanks for your post and question - it's a good one! I see my colleague, , has already answered your inquiry and provided a link to an excellent article by another colleague, John Bottrell. If you have an opportunity, the article is fairly thorough in John's explanation of the lung diffusion capacity of carbon monoxide (DLCO. It even includes some of the symptoms and conditions that may be associated with this diagnostic test. To be certain how your particular level of disease responds to the DLCO evaluation, you may want to take this directly to your doctor. It's important to hear one's doctor's impression of the diagnostic test results.
What do you think?
Leon (site moderator COPD.net)