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Clinical characteristics of COPD patients with tidal expiratory flow limitation

We have used impulse oscillometry to identify COPD patients with tidal expiratory flow limitation (EFL), which is a measurement related to small airway disease. We report that 37.4% of COPD patients had EFL; these patients had multiple clinical characteristics of more severe disease including lower...

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Autores principales: Dean, James, Kolsum, Umme, Hitchen, Paul, Gupta, Vandana, Singh, Dave
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5446959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28579768
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S137865

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