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Termination of adaptive servoventilation after successful long-term therapy

Case report of a heart failure patient with nocturnal Cheyne–Stokes respiration

Beendigung der adaptiven Servoventilation nach erfolgreicher Langzeittherapie

Kasuistik eines Patienten mit Herzinsuffizienz und nächtlicher Cheyne-Stokes-Atmung

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Conflict of interest. H. Fox, T. Bitter, D. Horstkotte, and O. Oldenburg state that there are no conflicts of interest. The accompanying manuscript does not include studies on humans or animals.

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Fox, H., Bitter, T., Horstkotte, D. et al. Termination of adaptive servoventilation after successful long-term therapy. Herz 39, 87–89 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00059-014-4063-8

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