HYPERCAPNIA, PERSISTENT¹⁷

 

• Hypercapnia with normal lungs: CNS disturbances (CVA, parkinsonism, encephalitis), metabolic alkalosis, myxedema, primary alveolar hypo-ventilation, spinal cord lesions.

• Diseases of the chest wall (e.g., kyphoscoliosis, ankylosing spondylitis).

• Neuromuscular disorders (e.g., myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barre syn­drome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, polio-myelitis).

• COPD.