Arrhythmias in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease /
اضطراب نظم القلب فى مرضى السدة الرئوية المزمنة
Mohammed Kamal Awad ; Supervised Hatem Alatroush , Ahmad Sameer , Hanan Zaghla
- Cairo : Mohammed Kamal Awad , 2012
- 133 P. : charts ; 25cm
Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Critical Care Medicine
Fatal arrhythmias are a common cause of death in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Two major hypotheses for arrhythmogenesis in COPD have been proposed: arrhythmias are a consequence of hypoxaemia, hypercapnia or acid-base disturbanes or arrhythmias are the result of the autonomic neuropathy that characterizes COPD