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Adult‐onset Pompe's disease presenting with insidious hypercapnic respiratory failure

Orthopnoea is commonly attributed to heart failure but can be caused by diaphragm weakness, which, when severe, is often associated with hypercapnic respiratory failure. Bilateral diaphragm weakness is generally due to systemic nerve or muscle disease and usually occurs in the setting of severe gene...

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Autores principales: O'Callaghan, Cara, Henderson, Robert, Masel, Philip, Tay, George, Tsang, Benjamin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5256953/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28127431
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.178