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Long-term follow-up of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients on long-term oxygen treatment

Gazi Gülbaş, Hakan Günen, Erdal İn

International Journal of Clinical Practice · 2011 · 23 citations · 14 references

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Abstract

We found that, regarding survival, any kind of LTOT proved to be beneficial over no LTOT only in the first 2 years of follow-up, and that there was not any difference between intermittent and true LTOT utilisation.

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