Respiratory Medicine
Volume 103, Issue 12 , Pages 1854-1861, December 2009

Importance of ventilator mode in long-term noninvasive positive pressure ventilation

  • Tomomasa Tsuboi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respiratory Care and Sleep Control Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 75 751 3852; fax: +81 75 751 3854.
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  • Toru Oga

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respiratory Care and Sleep Control Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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  • Kazuko Machida

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Tokyo Hospital, 3-1-1 Takeoka, Kiyose, Tokyo 204-8585, Japan
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  • Yuichi Chihara

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, 54 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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  • Hisako Matsumoto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, 54 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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  • Akio Niimi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, 54 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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  • Kensuke Sumi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respirology, National Hospital Organization Minami-Kyoto Hospital, 11 Naka-ashihara, Joyo, Kyoto 610-0113, Japan
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  • Motoharu Ohi

      Affiliations

    • Sleep Medical Center, Osaka Kaisei Hospital, 1-6-10 Miyahara, Yodogawa-ku, Osaka 532-0003, Japan
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  • Michiaki Mishima

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, 54 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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  • Kazuo Chin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respiratory Care and Sleep Control Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan

Received 28 May 2009; accepted 10 July 2009. published online 06 August 2009.

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PII: S0954-6111(09)00227-3

doi:10.1016/j.rmed.2009.07.005

Respiratory Medicine
Volume 103, Issue 12 , Pages 1854-1861, December 2009

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