Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Heart Failure ― A Therapeutic Dilemma ―

Sleep disordered breathing in heart failure: a contemporary assessment.

43 H eart failure (HF) is a public health problem of epidemic proportions, with a prevalence of more than 5 million in the United States, a figure that underestimates the true burden of disease, since a substantial portion of HF in the general population may be subclinical and remain undiagnosed. Despite an annual cost of nearly $30 billion dollars per year in the United States and increasingly...

sleep-disordered breathing in a group of heart transplantation candidates

background and objective: sleep-disordered breathing (sdb) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in patients with heart failure (hf). we assessed the prevalence and the pattern of sdb in hf patients who were candidates for heart transplantation. materials and methods: twenty heart transplantation patients with ventricular ejection-fraction < 25% were recruited consecutively in a ...

Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Patients with Heart Failure: An Update

Prognosis and sleep disordered breathing in heart failure.

Abnormal breathing in heart failure as originally described by Cheyne and subsequently by Stokes was observed in apparently awake patients as an agonal breathing pattern. “. . . The only peculiarity in the last period of his illness was in the state of the respiration. For several days his breathing was irregular, then it would become perceptible, though very low, then by degrees it became heav...

Sleep disordered breathing and its treatment in congestive heart failure.

Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is a common problem with adverse cardiorespiratory, endocrinological, and endothelial effects. Recent studies demonstrate an even higher prevalence of SDB in congestive heart failure (CHF) than in a randomly selected population, with up to 40% and 11% having Cheyne Stokes respiration-central sleep apnoea and obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea syndromes, respecti...