Nocturnal ventilation by nasal mask in an 8-year-old girl with thoracic scoliosis, hypercapnic respiratory failure, and cor pulmonale

Pediatr Pulmonol. 1995 Jan;19(1):60-5. doi: 10.1002/ppul.1950190110.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Blood Gas Monitoring, Transcutaneous
  • Child
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypercapnia / etiology*
  • Pulmonary Heart Disease / etiology*
  • Pulmonary Heart Disease / physiopathology
  • Radiography
  • Respiration, Artificial / instrumentation*
  • Respiration, Artificial / methods
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / blood
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / etiology*
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / therapy*
  • Scoliosis / complications*
  • Scoliosis / congenital*
  • Scoliosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Scoliosis / physiopathology
  • Sleep, REM / physiology
  • Thoracic Vertebrae