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High Prevalence of Respiratory Muscle Weakness in Hospitalized Acute Heart Failure Elderly Patients

Pedro Veríssimo, Karina Tavares Timenetsky, Thaisa Juliana André Casalaspo, Louise Helena Rodrigues Gonçalves, Angela Shu Yun Yang, Raquel Afonso Caserta Eid

PLoS ONE · 2015 · 30 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

Elderly patients admitted with AHF may present a high prevalence of RMW on admission; this condition may be maintained at similar levels on discharge in a large percentage of these patients, even after clinical stabilization of the heart condition.

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