Diaphragm pacers as a treatment for congenital central hypoventilation syndrome
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Diaphragm pacers as a treatment for congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.
Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome is a rare syndrome present from birth, and is defined as the failure of automatic control of breathing. All patients with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome require life-long ventilatory support during sleep, although approximately a third of patients require ventilatory support 24 h per day. Diaphragm pacers offer a modality of ventilatory s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Expert Review of Medical Devices
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1743-4440,1745-2422
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.2.5.577