Invited editorial on “Lung membrane conductance and capillary volume derived from the NO and CO transfer in high altitude newcomers”

Abstract

in abstracts published in 1983 ([2][1]) and 1984 ([3][2]), Borland and Higenbottam from Cambridge, UK, showed that alveolar uptake of inhaled nitric oxide (NO) was, on average, 4.3 times faster than that of simultaneously inhaled carbon monoxide (CO), using the standard single-breath test. This