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American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Vol 165. pp. 1597-1601, (2002)
© 2002 American Thoracic Society

Original Article

Exhaled Nitric Oxide as a Diagnostic Test for Asthma

Online versus Offline Techniques and Effect of Flow Rate

Aaron Deykin, Anthony F. Massaro, Jeffrey M. Drazen and Elliot Israel

Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to Aaron Deykin, M.D., Pulmonary Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail: adeykin{at}partners.org

Measurement of the fraction of exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) has been proposed as a noninvasive assessment of asthmatic airway inflammation. The influence of the expiratory flow rate during the collection maneuver on the ability of FENO to discriminate healthy subjects from those with asthma is unknown. We compared online and offline measurement of FENO at different flow rates. FENO was collected with expiratory flows of 50–500 ml/second in 34 patients with asthma (PC20 of less than 8 mg/ml) and 28 healthy subjects (PC20 of more than 10 mg/ml) using offline collection techniques. In a subgroup of 18 individuals with asthma and 17 healthy subjects, we additionally measured FENO at multiple expiratory flow rates (47–250 ml/second) using online methods. FENO fell with an increasing expiratory flow rate; FENO was higher in subjects with asthma as compared with healthy subjects at each flow rate studied with both techniques (p < 0.001). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for the diagnosis of asthma indicated that FENO is a robust discriminator between individuals with asthma and healthy subjects (area under the ROC curves 0.79 ± 0.06 to 0.86 ± 0.06, p for significant discrimination < 0.0001). Neither expiratory flow rate nor collection technique (online versus offline) significantly altered this discriminatory capacity (area under the ROC curves = 0.84 ± 0.07 with the slowest online method versus 0.80 ± 0.07 with the fastest offline method, p = 0.46). These data indicate that the choice of expiratory flow rate and collection method can be based on practicality and patient comfort without compromising the utility of this test for asthma.

Key Words: nitric oxide • asthma • diagnosis




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