Effect of CPAP on long-term mortality in overlap syndrome: is hypercapnic the best appropriate determinant?

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Intensive Care Unit and Non invasive Ventilatory Unit, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Avenida Marques Velez s/n, 30.008, Murcia, Spain,

Published: October 2014

Overlap syndrome and represents a complex clinical condition in pulmonary medicine. We discuss in this letter factors related with mortality after long-term effects CPAP and key differences between hypercapnic versus hypoxemic overlap patients.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00408-014-9613-6DOI Listing

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