Breath Analysis for Clinical Diagnosis and Therapeutic Monitoring (with Cd-Rom) Book

1	Selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry, SIFT-MS, for on-line trace gas analysis of breath	3
2	Occupational exposure assessment through analysis of human breath and ambient air using IMR-mass spectrometry	35
3	Proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry : a good prospect for diagnostic breath analysis?	45
4	Metabolites in human breath : ion mobility spectrometers as diagnostic tools for lung diseases	53
5	Laser spectroscopic on-line monitoring of exhaled trace gases	67
6	Exhaled human breath analysis with quantum cascade laser-based gas sensors	75
7	TCNQ derivatives-based sensors for breath gas analysis	85
8	Exhaled nitric oxide : how and why we know it is important	103
9	Nitric oxide in exhaled breath : a window on lung physiology and pulmonary disease	121
10	Nasal nitric oxide measurements as a diagnostic tool : ready for clinical use?	141
11	Exhaled nitric oxide in hepatopulmonary syndrome	147
12	Exhaled nitric oxide and pulmonary complications after allogeneic stem cell transplantation	155
13	Isotope selective detection of nitric oxide in human exhalation	161
14	Diagnostic aspects of exhaled nitric oxide in cardiothoracic anaesthesia	171
15	Can inhalation carbon monoxide be utilized as a therapeutic modality in human diseases?	203
16	Breath ethane in disease : methods for analysis based on room air correction	237
17	Current status of clinical breath analysis	251
18	VOC breath markers in critically ill patients : potential and limitations	267
19	How to analyze breath and make sense of the data : a personal view	293
20	Exhaled breath gas as a biochemical probe during sleep	305
21	Analysis of breath using SIFT-MS : a comparison of the breath composition of healthy volunteers and seriously-ill ICU patients	317
22	Breath gas analysis and vector-borne disease diagnosis : the case of malaria	327
23	Recent developments in exhaled breath analysis and human exposure research	337
24	The unique value of breath biomarkers for estimating pharmacokinetic rate constants and body burden from environmental exposure	347
25	A model of the cardiovascular-respiratory control system with applications to exercise, sleep, and congestive heart failure	361
26	Breath gas analysis in patients with carbohydrate-malabsorption syndrome	375
27	Detection of H. pylori infection by breath ammonia following urea ingestion	393
28	Breath gas analysis in patients suffering from propionic acidaemia	401
29	Applications of selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry in addiction research	409
30	Exhaled breath condensate (EBC) : an alternative or additional diagnostic?	421
31	Rapid diagnosis of gastro-intestinal infection using faecal odour	429
32	Flowing afterglow mass spectrometry (FA-MS) for the determination of the deuterium abundance in breath water vapour and aqueous liquid headspace	439
33	[superscript 13]C breath tests : transition from research to clinical practice	457
34	The combined use of SIFT-MS and FA-MS to investigate first-pass metabolism of ethanol	479
35	Breath analysis : taking the needle out of veterinary diagnostics?
36	Potential for and limitations of exhaled breath analysis in animal models	503