An unusual cause of respiratory alkalosis.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A 56-year-old man with a longstanding tracheostomy presented to the hospital with upper GI bleeding and was found to have a profound respiratory alkalosis. The cause of this patient's involuntary hyperventilation was hiccuping complicated by the absence of glottic closure.
Medical subject headings
- Alkalosis, Respiratory
- Hiccup