Long-Term Oxygen Therapy in COPD: Factors Affecting and Ways of Improving Patient Compliance

Long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) is the cornerstone mode of treatment in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) associated with resting hypoxaemia. When appropriately prescribed and correctly used, LTOT has clearly been shown to improve survival in hypoxemic COPD patients....

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Autores principales: Katsenos, Stamatis, Constantopoulos, Stavros H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3175397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21941649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/325362

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3175397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21941649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/325362

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