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Chronic respiratory failure: an unusual cause and treatment
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- Published on: 29 April 2016
- Published on: 29 April 2016Re: Chronic respiratory failureShow More
Dear Editor
The recent case report from Smyth and Riley[1] describes nicely an extremely uncommon chronic respiratory failure due to hypoventilation secondary to brainstem stroke, and documents a new treatment option with medroxyprogesterone acetate.
We recently saw two patients also with central hypoventilation resulting in chronic type II respiratory failure and treated both with, among other things, me...
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