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Acute respiratory failure with increasing anoxaemia, hypercapnia, and acidaemia is responsible for the dis- tinctive clinical picture observed during exacerbation of infection in the chronic bronchitic and emphysematous subject: headache, raised intracranial pressure, papill- oedema, mental confusion, hallucinations, sweating, myoclonic jerking, iricreased cardiac output, pulmonary hypertension, and congestive cardiac failure.
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