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ArticleSleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung2013

Clinical heterogeneity of patients with complex sleep apnea syndrome.

Tomasz J Kuźniar, Kamilla Kasibowska-Kuźniar, Daniel W Ray, Thomas Freedom

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Article in Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Pathophysiology of central sleep apneas.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2016
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  3. The complexities of complex sleep apnea.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2013
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tomasz J KuźniarDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, NorthShore University HealthSystem, 2650 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL, USA, tk@medycyna-snu.pl.
Kamilla Kasibowska-Kuźniar
Daniel W Ray
Thomas Freedom
NorthShore University HealthSystem · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe definition of complex sleep apnea (CompSAS) encompasses patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) who develop central apnea activity upon restitution of airway patency. Presence of arterial hypertension (HTN), coronary artery disease (CAD) and heart failure (HF) have been proposed as risk factors for CompSAS among OSA patients. Using our database of patients with CompSAS, we examined the prevalence of these risk factors and defined other clinical characteristics of patients with CompSAS.

methodsThrough retrospective search of the database, we examined the medical and clinical characteristics of consecutive patients diagnosed with CompSAS between 11/1/2006 and 6/30/2011 at NorthShore University HealthSystem.

resultsOne hundred and fifty patients with CompSAS were identified. Among patients included in the study, 97 (64.7 %) had at least one risk factor for CompSAS, while 53 (35.3 %) did not have any of them. Prevalence of low left ventricular ejection fraction and hypocapnia were low. Therapeutic interventions consisted of several positive airway pressure therapies, mainly adaptive servo ventilation. A hundred and ten patients (73.3 %) complied with recommended therapy and improved clinically.

conclusionsAlthough most patients with CompSAS have cardiac comorbidities, about one third of patients do not have any risk factors of CompSAS prior to sleep testing. Further research on factors involved in development of CompSAS will allow for better tailoring of therapy to pathophysiology involved in an individual case.

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AdultComorbidityContinuous Positive Airway PressureCoronary Artery DiseaseCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHeart FailureHumansHypertensionIllinoisMaleMiddle AgedPolysomnographyRetrospective StudiesRisk FactorsSleep Apnea, Central

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PMCPMC3898341
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