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03-12-2023 | Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease | Letter to the Editor

Sympathetic vascular transduction and baroreflex sensitivity in the context of severe COPD

Authors: Gianni Sesa-Ashton, Vaughan G. Macefield

Published in: Clinical Autonomic Research | Issue 1/2024

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an obstructive lung disease characterised by chronic bronchitis and emphysema, typically secondary to long-term cigarette smoking [1]. Patients classically present with significant hypoxaemia alongside hypercapnia, chronic cough with excessive mucus production and persistent fatigue [2]. While the respiratory symptoms dominate COPD presentation, the disease has well-documented sympathoexcitation at comparable levels to congestive heart failure and obstructive sleep apnea [3]. …

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Title: Sympathetic vascular transduction and baroreflex sensitivity in the context of severe COPD
Authors: Gianni Sesa-Ashton
Vaughan G. Macefield
Publication date: 03-12-2023
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
Hypoxemia
Published in: Clinical Autonomic Research / Issue 1/2024
Print ISSN: 0959-9851
Electronic ISSN: 1619-1560
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10286-023-01003-2

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