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Lot History In a preliminary pilot study conducted in 1967, Levine and colleagues found that oxygen therapy improved pulmonary hypertension in patients with COPD or hypoxemia (Koczulla 2018).The first large-scale study of long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) in COPD patients was published in 1981 as t...

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