How we treat central apneas (original) (raw)

2011

Abstract

In a time when sleep studies are progressively done out of sleep laboratories and the positive pressure devices have many automatic features that allow easy home titration, our sleep clinic thought it would be important to review the cases of central sleep apnea and their titration in the sleep laboratory. Between 2009 and 2010 patients with central sleep apnea were selected and prospectively followed in our sleep clinic. Demographics, anatomic features, clinical symptoms, initial and therapeutic standard polissonography, associated pathologies and eventual improvements were described. A total of eleven patients were selected, one female, mean age 64,5±13,3, mean body mass index 30,3± 3,9 kg/m 2 , all snorers, nine referring hypertension, four with heart failure and five with a disease of the central nervous system. All but one referred daytime sleepiness and scored more than 10 in the Epworth scale. The polissonographies showed a mean apnea/hyponea index (AHI) of 44,1±14,7/H and a ...

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