Pre-Existing Diseases of Patients Increase Susceptibility to Hypoxemia during Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Yanhua Long; Hui-Hui Liu; Changhong Yu; Xia Tian; Yi-Ran Yang; Cheng Wang; Yajuan Pan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037614

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Pre-Existing Diseases of Patients Increase Susceptibility to Hypoxemia during Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Yanhua Long ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanhua Long, Hui-Hui Liu

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Third Hospital of Wuhan (Tong Ren Hospital of Wuhan University), Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China
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Hui-Hui Liu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanhua Long, Hui-Hui Liu

* E-mail: liuhhchris@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, The Third Hospital of Wuhan (Tong Ren Hospital of Wuhan University), Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China, Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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Changhong Yu,

Affiliation Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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Xia Tian,

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Third Hospital of Wuhan (Tong Ren Hospital of Wuhan University), Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China
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Yi-Ran Yang,

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, The Third Hospital of Wuhan (Tong Ren Hospital of Wuhan University), Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China, Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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Cheng Wang,

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Third Hospital of Wuhan (Tong Ren Hospital of Wuhan University), Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China
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Yajuan Pan

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, The Third Hospital of Wuhan (Tong Ren Hospital of Wuhan University), Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China
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Pre-Existing Diseases of Patients Increase Susceptibility to Hypoxemia during Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Yanhua Long,
Hui-Hui Liu,
Changhong Yu,
Xia Tian,
Yi-Ran Yang,
Cheng Wang,
Yajuan Pan

Published: May 22, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037614

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