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1982 • 186 citations

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1986 • 182 citations

Remission of Severe Obesity-Hypoventilation Syndrome after Short-term Treatment during Sleep with Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure^1–3

1983 • 163 citations

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1994 • 156 citations

Reversal of the Pickwickian Syndrome by Long-Term Use of Nocturnal Nasal-Airway Pressure

1982 • 140 citations

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1992 • 108 citations

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Oxygen Cost of Breathing and Diaphragmatic Pressure-Time Index

1990 • 84 citations

Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in Decompensated Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure as a Complication of Sleep Apnea

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Nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation in the treatment of respiratory failure in obstructive sleep apnoea

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