Published 2017-04-01
“…Luqian Zhou,1,* Xiaoying Li,1,* Lili Guan,1,* Jianhua Chen,1 Bingpeng Guo,1 Weiliang Wu,1 Yating Huo,1 Ziqing Zhou,1 Zhenyu Liang,1 Yuqi Zhou,2 Jie Tan,3 Xin Chen,4 Yuanlin Song,5 Rongchang Chen1 1Department of Respiratory Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, 2Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun-Yat Sen University, 3Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine of
Guangzhou Pharmaceutical University, 4Department of Respiratory Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 5Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China *These authors contributed equally to this work Background: The benefits of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) in patients with hypercapnic COPD are controversial. …”
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