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Exercise performance and differences in physiological response to pulmonary rehabilitation in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with hyperinflation

OBJECTIVE: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) improves exercise capacity in most but not all COPD patients. The factors associated with treatment success and the role of chest wall mechanics remain unclear. We investigated the impact of PR on exercise performance in COPD with severe hyperinflation. METHO...

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Autores principales: de Albuquerque, André Luis Pereira, Quaranta, Marco, Chakrabarti, Biswajit, Aliverti, Andrea, Calverley, Peter M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4853065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27167433
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1806-37562015000000078