An unusual cause of respiratory alkalosis.
A 56-year-old man with a longstanding tracheostomy presented to the hospital with upper GI bleeding and was found to have a profound respiratory alkalosis. The cause of this patient's involuntary hyperventilation was hiccuping complicated by the absence of glottic closure.
Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Buffalo General Hospital 14203.
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Campbell
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Schwartz
D000472:Alkalosis, Respiratory / Q000209:etiology*; D006606:Hiccup / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D006985:Hyperventilation / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014139:Tracheostomy