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Influence of nasal positive pressure ventilation on hemodynamics in patients with severe dilatative cardiomyopathy (NYHA III-IV)
Patients suffering from severe cardiac failure develop breathing pattern disorders, often. Polysomnography demonstrates periodic breathing (Cheyne-Stokes respiration) with or without central apnea. Consecutive...
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Mucolytics: When dispensable, when necessary?
Many patients with chest disease have difficulty in clearing their chests of sputum. A variety of substances have been used in an attempt to help them. Mucolytic drugs can alter the rheological properties of m...
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Effects of a combined treatment theophylline and tulobuterol on nocturnal chronic asthma
The efficacy of a bronchodilator combination therapy (a slow-release xanthine derivative plus an oralβ 2-mimetic—tulobuterol) in the treatment of nocturnal asthma attacks was compared to t...
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Bopindolol, pindolol, and atenolol in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease
Twelve subjects with chronic obstructive lung disease and a partially reversible obstruction received increasing single doses of bopindolol (1, 2, 4, and 8 mg), pindolol (7.5, 15, and 30 mg), and atenolol (50 ...
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Effects of single oral doses of bisoprolol and atenolol on airway function in nonasthmatic chronic obstructive lung disease and angina pectoris
A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind crossover investigation in 12 patients with non-asthmatic chronic obstructive lung disease and co-existing stable angina pectoris was done to compare two β1-selectiv...
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Dose-response relationship of the β-adrenoceptor antagonist bisoprolol in patients with coronary heart disease and chronic obstructive bronchitis
The effects of single, consecutively increased, oral doses of the β-adrenoceptor antagonist bisoprolol (5, 10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 mg) on blood pressure, heart rate and bronchomotor tone were investigated in an ope...
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Terbutaline aerosol from a metered dose inhaler via a 750 ml spacer
The effect on large and small airways of a pressurized terbutaline aerosol delivered via a 750 ml spacer, or via an ordinary actuator, was investigated in a double-blind study of 15 patients with reversible ob...