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  • Title: Chronic noninvasive ventilation in obstructive airways disease.
    Author: Wedzicha JA.
    Journal: Respir Care Clin N Am; 1996 Jun; 2(2):253-66. PubMed ID: 9390882.
    Abstract:
    Early experience with noninvasive ventilation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was largely unsuccessful, with no benefit over long-term oxygen therapy. Nasal positive pressure ventilation, however, produces improvements in arterial blood gases, nocturnal-hypoventilation, and quality of life. Experience with nasal ventilation in other obstructive airways diseases, such as bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis, is limited and less favorable.
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