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ArticleJournal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine2018

Improvement in Sleep-Disordered Breathing Indices Downloaded From a Positive Airway Pressure Machine Following Conversion of Atrial Fibrillation to Sinus Rhythm.

Ken Monahan, Raghu Upender, Kristen Sherman, James Sheller, Jay Montgomery, Robert L Abraham

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Article in Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Sudden Improvement in PAP Download Indices Without Treatment Change.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ken MonahanDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
Raghu UpenderDepartment of Neurology, Division of Sleep Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
Kristen ShermanDivision of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
James ShellerDivision of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
Jay MontgomeryDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
Robert L AbrahamDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

abstractSleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is a contributor to atrial fibrillation (AF) and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea can reduce the recurrence of AF following catheter ablation. However, the effect of AF therapies on measures of SDB severity is less robustly described. We present the case of a middle-aged man with SDB and persistent AF who exhibited improvement in SDB metrics, as characterized by data downloaded from his auto-titrating continuous positive airway pressure (AutoCPAP) machine, very shortly following procedures that restored sinus rhythm. Between procedures, when his rhythm reverted to AF, the downloaded parameters suggested more SDB events. After catheter ablation, the patient maintained sinus rhythm and the improvement in SDB metrics was sustained as well. This case provides support in favor of a bidirectional relationship between SDB and AF and suggests that data available from PAP machines may be useful in serial assessment of SDB status relative to heart rhythm.

Indexed as

Positive-Pressure RespirationAgedAtrial FibrillationCatheter AblationElectric CountershockHumansMalePolysomnographyRecurrenceSleep Apnea Syndromesatrial fibrillationcontinuous positive airway pressuresleep-disordered breathing

Identifiers

PMID30373693
PMCPMC6223556
OpenAlexW2901819285

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