How do patients with COPD and chronic respiratory failure die and what can we do?

M. Vitacca (Lumezzane, Italy)

Source: Annual Congress 2012 - Advances in chronic respiratory failure in COPD: now out of its infancy
Session: Advances in chronic respiratory failure in COPD: now out of its infancy
Session type: Symposium
Number: 1815
Disease area: Airway diseases

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