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Nocturnal Hypoxia in ALS Is Related to Cognitive Dysfunction and Can Occur as Clusters of Desaturations

BACKGROUND: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that leads to progressive weakness of the respiratory and limb muscles. Consequently, most patients with ALS exhibit progressive hypoventilation, which worsens during sleep. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relat...

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Autores principales: Park, Su-Yeon, Kim, Sung-Min, Sung, Jung-Joon, Lee, Kyung-Min, Park, Kyung-Seok, Kim, Sang-Yun, Nam, Hyun-woo, Lee, Kwang-Woo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3776791/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24058674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075324