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NEUROLOGY
Volume 58, Issue 3, Pages 485-487Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.58.3.485
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The authors evaluated their uncontrolled, retrospective experience with 33 patients with ALS with erect or supine forced vital capacity less than 50% predicted who underwent attempted percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement using noninvasive positive pressure ventilation and oxygen support and conscious sedation anesthesia. Gastrostomy tubes were successfully placed in-all patients. Mean survival was 211 days with most patients (67%) surviving more than 180 days. Forced vital capacity at the time of PEG placement did not predict survival.
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