Diurnal mouthpiece ventilation and nocturnal non-invasive ventilation versus tracheostomy invasive ventilation in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

CONCLUSIONS: Ventilatory treatment with MPV and TIV did not demonstrate significant differences in survival. Patients treated with MPV reported a better HRQoL, although TIV group showed higher ventilatory parameters improvement than MPV group. PMID: 31146513 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Panminerva Medica - Category: General Medicine Tags: Panminerva Med Source Type: research