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Exploratory study into the effect of abdominal mass loading on airways resistance and ventilatory failure

OBJECTIVE: We hypothesised that the airway resistance during tidal breathing would correlate with a particular pattern of increasing obesity, particularly when supine, and would differ between participants with and without ventilatory failure. METHODS: In our cross-sectional cohort study, 72 morbidl...

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Autores principales: Dattani, Raj S, Swerner, Casey B, Stradling, John R, Manuel, Ari RG
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4908953/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27335651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2016-000138