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High Prevalence of Respiratory Muscle Weakness in Hospitalized Acute Heart Failure Elderly Patients

INTRODUCTION: Respiratory Muscle Weakness (RMW) has been defined when the maximum inspiratory pressure (MIP) is lower than 70% of the predictive value. The prevalence of RMW in chronic heart failure patients is 30 to 50%. So far there are no studies on the prevalence of RMW in acute heart failure (A...

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Autores principales: Verissimo, Pedro, Timenetsky, Karina T., Casalaspo, Thaisa Juliana André, Gonçalves, Louise Helena Rodrigues, Yang, Angela Shu Yun, Eid, Raquel Caserta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4324642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25671566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118218