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Chest, Vol 100, 1159-1159, Copyright © 1991 by American College of Chest Physicians

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An unusual cause of respiratory alkalosis

LA Campbell and SH Schwartz
Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Buffalo General Hospital 14203.

A 56-year-old man with a longstanding tracheostomy presented to the hospital with upper GI bleeding and was found to have a profound respiratory alkalosis. The cause of this patient's involuntary hyperventilation was hiccuping complicated by the absence of glottic closure.




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