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V Alfaro1, R Torras, L Palacios
1Department of Physiology, University of Barcelona, Spain.
Respiration; International Review of Thoracic Diseases
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
An effective treatment of advanced states of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has yet to be established. We report the case of a COPD patient with severe hypoxemia (pO2 = 32.0 mm Hg) and hypercapnia (pCO2 = 90.0 mm Hg) who was successfully treated for 8 months with nasal intermittent positive-pressure ventilation (NIPPV) plus supplemental O2 in a domiciliary treatment. The reduction of hypoxemia parallel to the alleviation of hypercapnia reversed the patient's continuously declining condition.