Noninvasive ventilation Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Gomez-Merino E, Bach JR. Duchenne muscular dystrophy prolongation of life by noninvasive ventilation and mechanically assisted coughing. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2002 81(6) 411-415. 

Figure 7 Duchenne muscular dystrophy patient, dependent on noninvasive ventilation using daytime mouthpiece ventilation mounted on his electric wheelchair.

Figure 2 A 37-year-old with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, vital capacity 270 mL, continuously dependent on noninvasive ventilation seen here using lipseal ventilation for nocturnal ventilatory support.

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