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The Safety of Flexible Bronchoscopy in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension
1Pulmonary department and 2Devision of Cardiology Affiliated with Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel
Background
Flexible bronchoscopy (FB) is one of the
Background Cardiovascular disease is the commonest cause of morbidity and mortality in chronic dialysis patients [1]. Sleep studies in ESRD patients have identified increased prevalence of sleep apnea (SA), both obstructive (OSA) and central (CSA) in origin [2]. The reported prevalence of SA in
The number of patients arriving each year at the stage of final renal insufficiency (IRT) and requiring the dialysis of substitution does not cease growing, in parallel with continuous ageing of the population in industrialized countries. The incidence of the IRT is approximately 110 new patients