Early treatment with noninvasive positive pressure ventilation prolongs survival in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients with nocturnal respiratory insufficiency

BACKGROUND: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease, which rapidly leads to chronic respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation. Currently, forced vital capacity (FVC) < 50% is considered as physiologic marker for admitting patients to Noninvasive Positive Pres...

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Autores principales: Carratù, Pierluigi, Spicuzza, Lucia, Cassano, Anna, Maniscalco, Mauro, Gadaleta, Felice, Lacedonia, Donato, Scoditti, Cristina, Boniello, Ester, Di Maria, Giuseppe, Resta, Onofrio
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2660903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19284546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-1172-4-10

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