Peak Flow and Peak Cough Flow in the Evaluation of Expiratory Muscle Weakness and Bulbar Impairment in Patients with Neuromuscular Disease

A Suárez, Adrián; Augusto Pessolano, Fernando; G Monteiro, Sergio; Ferreyra, Gabriela; Esther Capria, Maria; Mesa, L.; Dubrovsky, Alberto; Luis De Vito, Eduardo

doi:10.1097/00002060-200207000-00007

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Peak Flow and Peak Cough Flow in the Evaluation of Expiratory Muscle Weakness and Bulbar Impairment in Patients with Neuromuscular Disease

Published in American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation • Jul 1, 2002

Authors:

Adrián A Suárez

Fernando Augusto Pessolano

Sergio G Monteiro

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To study the expiratory muscle force and the ability to cough estimated by the peak expiratory flow and peak cough flow in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. DESIGN: A total of 27 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and 52 patients with Du...

Subject

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Medicine

Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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