Efficacy of Noninvasive Ventilation in a Patient with Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure Complicating Eisenmenger’s Syndrome
Eisenmenger’s syndrome is a severe type of congenital heart disease characterized by severe pulmonary arterial hypertension. In the cases that the pressure in pulmonary circulation exceeds the systemic pressure, there appears a right-to-left shunting of blood. Consequently, the syndrome exists hypox...
Main Authors: | Ana Jaureguizar Oriol, Salvador Díaz-Lobato, Francisco León Román, Sagrario Mayoralas Alises |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2017-08-01
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Series: | Eurasian Journal of Pulmonology |
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Online Access: | http://www.eurasianjpulmonol.com/jvi.aspx?pdir=eurasianjpulmonol&plng=eng&un=EJP-82905 |
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