1. Noninvasive ventilation in pulmonary rehabilitation of COPD patients
Thomas Köhnlein, Ursula Schönheit-Kenn, Sandra Winterkamp, Tobias Welte, Klaus Kenn 
Respiratory Medicine 
Volume 103, Issue 9, Pages (September 2009)
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2. Figure 1
Changes in the six-minute walk distance from baseline to the end of a 29-day, hospital-based, intensive pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) program. Patients who had been started on nocturnal NIPPV at the beginning of the rehabilitation program (right) revealed significantly better increases in the distance walked in 6min than patients undergoing the same program without additional NIPPV treatment (left).
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3. Figure 2
Changes in largest non-stop walk distance from baseline to the end of a 29-day, hospital-based, intensive pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) program. Patients who had been started on nocturnal NIPPV at the beginning of the rehabilitation program (right) revealed significantly better increases in the largest non-stop walk distance than patients undergoing the same program without additional NIPPV treatment (left).
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4. Figure 3
Health-related quality of life before and after pulmonary rehabilitation with/without NIPPV. SF-36 scores reflecting health-related quality of life. Assessments were made in the control group at baseline (white columns) and after the 29 days rehabilitation program (dotted columns). The same assessments were made in the NIPPV group at baseline (hatched columns) and after the 29-day pulmonary rehabilitation program (black columns). In the control group, clinically relevant improvements were detected for vitality only, while patients in the NIPPV group developed relevant improvements in role-function physical, vitality, social function, mental health, and the mental component summary score. For details refer to main text and Table 4.
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