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(Chest. 1974;65:207-209.)
© 1974 American College of Chest Physicians

Prolonged Respirator Support for the Treatment of Intractable Myasthenia Gravis

Paul A. Selecky M.D.1 and Irwin Ziment M.D.1

1 Respiratory Division, UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor General Hospital Campus, Torrance

The advent of modern respiratory care has provided the ability to maintain patients on full respirator support via a tracheostomy for prolonged periods, without serious sequelae. We recently had the opportunity to care for a patient who suffered from severe neuromuscular weakness secondary to myasthenia gravis. This necessitated continuous respirator support for a total of 661 days, a duration previously unreported.






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