title: [Unusual health improvement in a patient with pulmonary heart disease in kyphosis and scoliosis after home treatment with oxygen].
abstract: Male obese patient, aged 35 years with kyphoscoliosis due to poliomyelitis was admitted in respiratory and cardiac failure. Severe desaturations during sleep were found. After successful hospital treatment patient was submitted to the long-term oxygen therapy. Reduction of weight and smoking cessation was suggested. Patient stopped smoking, lost 14 kg in 12 months and breathed oxygen for 12 hours per day (mainly at night). Treatment resulted in a significant improvement in ventilatory reserves, blood gases and normalization of pulmonary arterial pressure.
authors.affiliation: Kliniki Chorób Płuc Instytutu Gruźlicy i Chorób Płuc, Warszawie.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hawryłkiewicz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Klimaszewski
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cieślicki
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kossowska
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007738:Kyphosis / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000150:complications*; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration / Q000379:methods*; D011660:Pulmonary Heart Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000503:physiopathology; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome
vernacular_title: Niezwykła poprawa stanu zdrowia chorego z sercem płucnym w przebiegu kyfoskoliozy po domowym leczeniu tlenem.