ArticleNature and science of sleep2020
Watch-PAT is Useful in the Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation.
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- A meta-analysis of diagnostic test performance of peripheral arterial tonometry studies.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Pooled it
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- The Future of Telemedicine for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Treatment: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Measurement of peripheral arterial tone to detect sleep-disordered breathing in patients with heart failure.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2024Article
- Sleep apnea severity in patients undergoing atrial fibrillation ablation: Home sleep apnea-test and polysomnography comparison.Journal of arrhythmia · 2023Article
- Peripheral arterial tonometry versus polysomnography in suspected obstructive sleep apnoea.European journal of medical research · 2023Article
- Atrial fibrillation-specific refinement of the STOP-Bang sleep apnoea screening questionnaire: insights from the Virtual-SAFARI study.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2023Article
- Improving outcomes of AF ablation by integrated personalized lifestyle interventions: rationale and design of the prevention to improve outcomes of PVI (POP) trial.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2023Article
- Systemic Lupus Erythematous and Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Possible Association.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A new approach to streamline obstructive sleep apnea therapy access using peripheral arterial tone-based home sleep test devices.Frontiers in sleep · 2023Article
- The role of the WatchPAT device in the diagnosis and management of obstructive sleep apnea.Frontiers in sleep · 2023Review
- Multiple-access versus telemedicine home-based sleep apnea testing for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) diagnosis: a cost-minimization study.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2022Article
- Medicine 2032: The future of cardiovascular disease prevention with machine learning and digital health technology.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundEarly diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) is critical. The WatchPAT (WP) device was shown to be accurate for the diagnosis of sleep apnea; however, studies using the WatchPAT device have thus far excluded patients with arrhythmias due to the potential effect of arrhythmias on the peripheral arterial tonometry (PAT) amplitude and pulse rate changes. PURPOSE: To examine the accuracy of the WP in detecting sleep apnea in patients with AF. PATIENTS AND
methodsPatients with AF underwent simultaneous WP and PSG studies in 11 sleep centers. PSG scoring was blinded to the automatically analyzed WP data.
resultsA total of 101 patients with AF (70 males) were recruited. Forty-six had AF episodes during the overnight sleep study. A significant correlation was found between the PSG-derived AHI and the WP- derived AHI (r=0.80, p<0.0001). There was a good agreement between PSG-derived AHI and WP-derived AHI (mean difference of AHI: -0.02±13.2). Using a threshold of AHI ≥15 per hour of sleep, the sensitivity and specificity of the WP were 0.88 and 0.63, respectively. The overall accuracy in sleep staging between WP and PSG was 62% with Kappa agreement of 0.42.
conclusionWP can detect sleep apnea events in patients with AF. AF should not be an exclusion criterion for using the device. This finding may be of even greater importance in the era of the COVID19 epidemic, when sleep labs were closed and most studies were home based.
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