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Unexpected pressure swings in a positive airway pressure device: an unknown cause for bad CPAP tolerance?

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    Charlotte Mauclet, Giuseppe Liistro, Daniel Rodenstein, Myriam Dury, Valérie-Anne Chantrain & Gimbada Benny Mwenge

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Charlotte Mauclet: drafting, patient follow-up

Giuseppe Liistro: patient follow-up, article revision, critical input for important intellectual content, correction

Myriam Dury: polysomnography analysis

Valérie-Anne Chantrain: patient follow-up

Gimbada Benny Mwenge: conception, drafting, analysis and interpretation

Daniel Rodenstein: drafting, article revision, critical input for important intellectual content, correction

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Mauclet, C., Liistro, G., Rodenstein, D. et al. Unexpected pressure swings in a positive airway pressure device: an unknown cause for bad CPAP tolerance?. Sleep Breath 24, 1665–1667 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-019-01938-9

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