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Respiratory failure because of neuromuscular disease.

Current Opinion in Neurology, 2016
PURPOSE OF REVIEW Understanding the mechanisms and abnormalities of respiratory function in neuromuscular disease is critical to supporting the patient and maintaining ventilation in the face of acute or chronic progressive impairment.
R. Howard
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Sleep in Neuromuscular Diseases

Sleep Medicine Clinics, 2016
Sleep disorders in neuromuscular disorders are generally caused by respiratory dysfunction associated with these diseases. Hypoventilation in neuromuscular diseases results from both respiratory muscle weakness and reduced chemoreceptor sensitivity, which is required for ventilatory drive.
Anna Monica Fermin, Umair Afzal, Antonio Culebras   +2 more
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Fatigue and neuromuscular diseases

Annales de Réadaptation et de Médecine Physique, 2006
To identify the role of fatigue, its evaluation and its causes in the pathophysiology context of acquired or hereditary neuromuscular diseases of the spinal anterior horn cell, peripheral nerve, neuromuscular junction and muscle.A literature review has been done on Medline with the following keywords: neuromuscular disease, peripheral neuropathy ...
Paul Calmels, J-P Camdessanché, Léonard Féasson, L. El Mandhi, G-Y Millet   +4 more
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Neuromuscular disease and hypoventilation

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 1999
Alveolar hypoventilation associated with neuromuscular disease can occur in acute and chronic forms. In the acute form, progressive weakness of respiratory muscles leads to rapid reduction in vital capacity followed by respiratory failure with hypoxemia and hypercarbia.
Jeremy M. Shefner, James Sexton, Edward D. Sivak   +2 more
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Treatment of respiratory failure during sleep in patients with neuromuscular disease. Positive-pressure ventilation through a nose mask.

American Review of Respiratory Disease, 2015
Severe nocturnal hypoxemia may occur in patients with respiratory muscle weakness caused by neuromuscular disorders. Negative pressure ventilators may be partially effective in these patients but can cause upper airway obstructive apneas. We examined the
E. Ellis, P. Bye, J. Bruderer, C. Sullivan   +3 more
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Maximal static respiratory pressures in generalized neuromuscular disease.

, 2015
Maximal static respiratory pressures were determined by a simplified method in a group of patients with neuromuscular disease and were more frequently abnormal than the vital capacity, maximal midexpiratory flow, or maximal breathing capacity.
L. F. Black, R. Hyatt
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Neuromuscular Disease and the Chest

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1977
SOME adults with complaints of weakness and fatigue have an underlying specific neuromuscular disease. In these patients the neuromuscular symptoms may be associated with potentially more serious nonneuromuscular abnormalities. The chest roentgenogram may provide a clue to the diagnosis of a systemic disorder responsible for muscular weakness ...
Noah I. Lightman, Lloyd Shield, Stanley S. Siegelman   +2 more
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Neuromuscular diseases of childhood

Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 1993
This review covers three areas. First, dramatic progress in the discovery of abnormal loci on certain chromosomes associated with several motor unit diseases eventually will obviate the need for more invasive testing. Second, new information about the natural course of spinal muscular atrophy is beginning to clarify the nature of this disease.
Robin C. Schwartz, Barry S. Russman
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Neuromuscular disease and anesthesia

Muscle & Nerve, 2013
ABSTRACTPatients with neuromuscular disease pose many anesthetic challenges and are at greater risk for perioperative complications, including respiratory or cardiovascular dysfunction and pulmonary aspiration. Therefore, these patients require special precautions, including interdisciplinary communication between primary care physicians, neurologists,
Alan Romero, Girish P. Joshi
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Neuromuscular Diseases of the Newborn

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology, 2019
The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is composed of motor neurons, nerve roots, plexuses, peripheral nerves (motor, sensory and autonomic), neuromuscular junction, and skeletal muscles. Disorders of the PNS in neonates most frequently cause weakness, hypotonia, and contractures, which may be generalized or focal. Since these findings may also occur with
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