Rib cage deformities alter respiratory muscle action and chest wall function in patients with severe osteogenesis imperfecta

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• who: Rib Cage Deformities Alter and collaborators from the TBMLab, Dipartimento di Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ItalyEditor: James West, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, United States of America have published the research work: Rib Cage Deformities Alter Respiratory Muscle Action and Chest Wall Function in Patients with Severe Osteogenesis Imperfecta, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of April/27,/2012
• what: This study provides for the first time a detailed description of respiratory function in the two non-lethal more severe types of OI. The generally lower activity of the neck and rib cage muscles (scalene, sternocleidomastoid . . .
  

   

  

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