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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2014
Aradigm Corporation, Hayward, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Igor Gonda, San Francisco, CA (US);
Homer A. Boushey, Oakland, CA (US);
Aradigm Corporation, Hayward, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of diagnosing in a subject for the purpose of determining if the subject's gastrointestinal contents has entered the subject's respiratory tract. The qualitative analysis can be also expanded into quantitative analysis, enabling the estimation of either the concentration, or the amount, or both, of the gastrointestinal contents that entered the respiratory tract. The invention also provides methods of treatment based on the identification of aspiration using the methods of the invention.