Breathing tests and their significance in the clinic of internal diseases: the
 importance of non-invasive 13C bicarbonate breath test in medical diagnostics.

Abstract

13C breath tests have been widely developed in the world gastroenterology at the beginning of the 90-ies of the last century. This technique has been used for over 20 years in many developed countries and it has long been a routine and mass procedure. 13C urease breath test for infection Helicobacter pylori detection is the most widely analysis among 13C breath tests. Researchers are developing new 13C-biomarkers and expand the list of available substrates. One of these techniques is a multifunctional 13C bicarbonate breath test. Here is a brief overview of this application.