Objective:To estimate the qualification, time, and techniqueofventilatordependent patients weaning fromtheventilation with the end-stage lung disease afterlungtransplant.
Affected males with this progressive muscular disease become wheelchair bound before 13 years of age, are ventilatordependent in their late teens to early 20s due to respiratory failure, with death in their late 20s to 30s due to cardiac or pulmonary problems.