Hypoventilation in neuromuscular disease

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 348-358

  Vazquez Sandoval, Alfredo ^a   Huang, Eric J ^b   Jones, Shirley F ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypoventilation; Neuromuscular disease; Sleep

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIAMINOPYRIDINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; GUANIDINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; STEROID;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; EATON LAMBERT SYNDROME; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOVENTILATION; INTUBATION; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTPOLIOMYELITIS SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; HYPOVENTILATION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SLEEP; TERMINAL CARE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 67649635238     PISSN: 10693424     EISSN: 10989048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1222449     Document Type: Review

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