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A surprising cause of wheezing in a morbidly obese patient: a case report

A typical patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has small airway disease, which often responds to bronchodilators. If the patient is obese, he or she may be further compromised and not tolerate being in the supine position. We present a case of a patient with history of chronic obstruct...

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Autores principales: Kurnutala, Lakshmi N, Joshi, Minal, Kamath, Hattiyangadi, Yarmush, Joel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4211902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25364277
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S69474