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Thickening fraction as a measure of ultrasonographic diaphragm dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

OBJECTIVE: Respiratory failure is the most common cause of death in ALS patients secondary to diaphragmatic dysfunction. Herein, we report three ALS patients, and we sought to determine the diaphragm dysfunction by the measurement of ultrasonographic diaphragmatic thickness fraction (DTf). METHODS:...

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Autores principales: Digala, Lakshmi P., Govindarajan, Raghav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7025187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32090189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cnp.2020.01.001