Mechanisms of improvement of respiratory failure in patients with COPD treated with NIV

BACKGROUND: Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) improves gas-exchange and symptoms in selected chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with hypercapnic respiratory failure. We hypothesized NIV reverses respiratory failure by one or all of increased ventilatory response to carbon-dioxide, red...

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Autores principales: Nickol, Annabel H, Hart, Nicholas, Hopkinson, Nicholas S, Hamnegård, Carl-Hugo, Moxham, John, Simonds, Anita, Polkey, Michael I
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2008
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2629992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18990974

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2629992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18990974

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