Continuous positive airway pressure as a treatment modality for orthopnea in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and extreme obesity undergoing left superficial femoral thrombectomy.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA. narichac@hotmail.com
Naricha
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Chirakalwasan
Chang
C
Shim
David
D
Appel
D045422:Continuous Positive Airway Pressure; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000150:complications*; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests; D012640:Seizures / Q000150:complications; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000150:complications; D017131:Thrombectomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed