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[Home mechanical ventilation as a treatment of the sequelae of tuberculosis surgery]
E Prats Soro1, J Escarrabill Sanglas, E Farrero Muñoz
1UFISS-Respiratoria, Servicio de Neumología, Hospital de Badalona, Barcelona.
Anales De Medicina Interna (Madrid, Spain : 1984)
|March 25, 1999
Abstract:
Nasal intermittent positive-pressure ventilation (NIPPV) has been showed useful for the treatment of chronic respiratory failure in patients with chest wall diseases due to sequelae of tuberculosis. We present a report of a patient with a thoracoplasty and a cavernostomy in situation of chronic respiratory failure. Nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation improved diurnal hypoxaemia and hypercapnia.