Investigations & Diagnosis
Investigations & Diagnosis
Primary Care:
- Chest X-ray
- Spirometry
- O2 saturation
- Sputum samples
- FBC with differential white cell count
- BMI check
- Check if a smoker
Specialist:
- High-resolution CT
- Cystic fibrosis testing: sweat chloride, gene testing
- Immunoglobulin screening
- IgE for allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
- Primary ciliary dyskinesia testing (esp. in children where no other aetiology is identified for symptom presentation & history of continued rhinitis, neonatal RDS & dextrocardia)
- Autoantibody testing: anti-CCP, ANA
- HIV serology
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency investigations
- GI investigations
- Bronchoscopy