Pulmonary Clinic
Tests We Commonly Perform
To aid in arriving at the correct diagnosis, respiratory specialists at UT Health Northeast perform a number of tests, including:
- Arterial blood gas
- Bronchial provocation
- Bronchoscopy
- Chest x-ray
- CT-guided lung biopsies
- CT scan of the chest
- DLCO (Diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide)
- Exercise
- Induced sputum
- Interventional bronchoscopy
- Laryngoscopy
- Lung volume measurements
- Maximal respiratory pressures
- Nuclear medicine lung scans
- Positron emission tomography (PET)/CT scanning
- Pulmonary function
- Pulmonary gas exchange study
- Pulse oximetry
- Spirometry
- Ultrasound-guided fluid localizations


