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Cheyne-Stokes respiration in patients with heart failure: prevalence, causes, consequences and treatments
Thomas Brack1, Winfried Randerath, Konrad E Bloch
1Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital, Glarus, Switzerland. thomas.brack@ksgl.ch
Abstract:
Cheyne-Stokes respiration (CSR) is characterized by a pattern of cyclic oscillations of tidal volume and respiratory rate with periods of hyperpnea alternating with hypopnea or apnea in patients with heart failure. CSR harms the failing heart through intermittent hypoxia brought about by apnea and hypopnea and recurrent sympathetic surges. CSR impairs the quality of life and increases cardiac mortality in patients with heart failure. Thus, CSR should actively be pursued in patients with severe heart failure. When CSR persists despite optimal therapy of heart failure, noninvasive adaptive servoventilation is currently the most promising treatment.
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