Different mechanism may underlie respiratory failure of myotonic and Duchenne muscular dystrophies - A pulseoxymetric and spirometric study

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 850-853

  Ogata, Katsuhisa ^a   Kohno, Satoshi ^a   Komiya, Tadashi ^a   Yatabe, Kana ^a   Kawai, Mitsuru ^a  

^a SHIMOSHIZU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

chronic respiratory failure; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; myotonic dystophy; nocturnal periodic hypoxemia; respiratory muscle weakness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOTONIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULSE OXIMETRY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SPIROMETRY;

ANOXEMIA; HUMANS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; OXIMETRY; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RESPIRATORY MUSCLES; SPIROMETRY; TIME;

EID: 0029802023     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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