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Resolution of sleep-disordered breathing with a biventricular assist device and recurrence after heart
Emmanuelle Vermes1, Hortense Fonkoua, Matthias Kirsch
1AP-HP Groupe Henri Mondor Albert Chenevier, Service de Chirurgie Cardiaque, Créteil, France. emmanuelle.vermes@hmn.aphp.fr
Abstract:
Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is common in chronic heart failure. Both obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and central sleep apnea with periodic Cheyne-Stokes respiration (CSA-CSR) can occur. CSA-CSR is believed to correlate with heart function. Little information exists about the impact of mechanical assist devices and heart transplantation on SDB in patients with end-stage heart failure. Here, we describe, for the first time, the effects on SDB of a biventricular external assist device and of heart transplantation used successively in the same patient.
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