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Home-Based Prescribed Pulmonary Exercise in Patients with Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Published on: August 24, 2019
Case 3-2025: A 54-Year-Old Man with Exertional Dyspnea and Chest Pain
Clyde W Yancy1, J Sawalla Guseh1, Brian G Ghoshhajra1
1From the Department of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago (C.W.Y.); and the Departments of Medicine (J.S.G., A.J.Y.), Radiology (B.G.G.), and Pathology (B.M.H.), Massachusetts General Hospital, the Departments of Medicine (J.S.G., R.H.F., A.J.Y.), Radiology (B.G.G.), and Pathology (B.M.H.), Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (R.H.F.) - all in Boston.
No abstract available in PubMed .
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