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What are the differences in pulmonary function among severely dyspneic patients with left ventricular failure, mitral stenosis, and pulmonary emphysema?
What are the differences in pulmonary function among severely dyspneic patients with left ventricular failure, mitral stenosis, and pulmonary emphysema?
This study characterizes and compares pulmonary function across different etiologies of severe dyspnea and heart failure.
Descriptive pulmonary comparisons across dyspnea etiologies; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Unusually comprehensive studies of pulmonary function in hypertensive patients during left ventricular failure and cardiac asthma are presented. These findings are compared to those in mitral stenosis with congestive failure and in pulmonary emphysema with right heart failure. All patients were severely dyspneic and bedridden.
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