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Hyperinflated lungs compress the heart during expiration in COPD patients: a new finding on dynamic-ventilation computed tomography

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2017

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Yanyan Xu, Tsuneo Yamashiro, Hiroshi Moriya, Maho Tsubakimoto, Nanae Tsuchiya, Yukihiro Nagatani, Shin Matsuoka, Sadayuki Murayama
International Journal of COPD

Abstract

Patients with COPD have smaller heart size on dynamic-ventilation CT than non-COPD smokers and have abnormal cardiac compression during expiration.

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