Should we routinely screen patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis for nocturnal hypoxemia?

Sleep and Breathing

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 447-448

  Pitsiou, Georgia ^a   Bagalas, Vasilis ^a   Boutou, Afroditi ^a   Stanopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Argyropoulou Pataka, Paraskevi ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; ENDOTHELIN 1;

APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTERIAL GAS; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; EXERCISE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GAS EXCHANGE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIC LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; LETTER; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULSE OXIMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCREENING; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SPIROMETRY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

AGED; ANOXIA; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84878013176     PISSN: 15209512     EISSN: 15221709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11325-012-0716-0     Document Type: Letter

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