[Effects of psychological status on external respiration in patients operated for nonspecific lung diseases]. / Vlianie psikhologicheskogo statusa na funktsiiu vneshnego dykhaniia u bol'nykh, operirovannykh po povodu nespetsificheskikh zabolevanii legkikh.

Psychological tests and spirometry were used in examination of 39 patients operated on for severe chronic nonspecific pulmonary diseases. It was found that external respiration function was impaired more in emotionally strained subjects. Improvement of the external respiration coincided with diminution of hypochondria, positive changes in psychological status as a whole.