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Oxygen supplementation facilitating successful prosthetic fitting and rehabilitation of a patient with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease following trans-tibial amputation: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Dysvascular amputations are increasingly performed in patients with underlying cardiac and pulmonary disorders. A limb prosthesis is rarely offered to patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease because of their inability to achieve the high energy expenditure required f...

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Autores principales: Sohal, Jasdeep, Arneja, Amarjit, Sharma, Sat
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21176182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-410