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Fatigue associated with obstructive sleep apnea in a patient with sarcoidosis
M Drent1, J Verbraecken, C van der Grinten
1Department of Pulmonology, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands. mdr@slon.azm.nl
Respiration; International Review of Thoracic Diseases
|June 27, 2000
Abstract:
Many patients with sarcoidosis suffer from persistent constitutional symptoms such as fatigue and general weakness, even though physiological measures of disease activity returned within normal limits. The following case report demonstrates a sarcoidosis patient with recurring fatigue caused by an obstructive sleep apnea syndrome developed during the course of the disease.