[Role of pneumotachography in the diagnosis and assessment of treatment effectiveness in bronchial dystonia in respiratory tract diseases of dust etiology].

Flow-volume values and their changes in response to salbutamol and methacin inhalations were studied with the help of a pneumotachograph in 69 patients with anthracosilicosis stage I, and in 70 patients with chronic dust bronchitis stages I and II. Pneumotachography was shown to extend diagnostic potentialities in the detection of ventilation insufficiency in patients with dust pulmonary pathology, making it possible to determine not only a degree but also a site of obstructive disorders. Disorders of the sympathetic and parasympathetic bronchial innervation and associated biochemical mechanisms were important in the mechanism of bronchospasm development.