Central airway stabilization for tracheobronchomalacia improves quality of life in patients with COPD

Chest

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1162-1168

  Ernst, Armin ^a   Odell, David D ^b   Michaud, Gaetane ^b   Majid, Adnan ^b   Herth, Felix F J ^c   Gangadharan, Sidhu P ^b  

^a ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOPLASTY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM PARALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPHYSEMA; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LARYNX EDEMA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAINT GEORGE RESPIRATORY QUESTIONNAIRE; SEPSIS; STENT; STRIDOR; TRACHEA STENT; TRACHEOBRONCHOMALACIA; TRACHEOBRONCHOPLASTY; TRANSITIONAL DYSPNEA INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 81055126056     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.10-3051     Document Type: Article

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