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DLCO or TLCO (diffusing capacity or transfer factor of the lung for carbon monoxide (CO),[1]) is the extent to which oxygen passes from the air sacs of the lungs into the blood. Commonly, it refers to the test used to determine this parameter.
DLCO, VA and Inspired Volume can say a lot about lung function. DLCO is a critical component in the differential diagnosis of obstructive and restrictive lung diseases but to use it you first need to assess test quality with Inspired Volume and VA and only then can you use VA to help interpret the results.LCO can be used to assess a patient for lung resection, lobectomies and pneumonectomies. A simple approach is to estimate how much lung tissue will be removed as a fraction of the total lung volume and then estimate that DLCO will be reduced by the same amount.