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A Model to Simulate Clinically Relevant Hypoxia in Humans
Published on: December 22, 2016
Nocturnal hypoxaemia in patients with Eisenmenger syndrome: a cohort study
Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan1, Rajnish Juneja, Neil Bardolei
1Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Objectives:
The objective of the study was to find the prevalence of sleep-related disturbances in patients of Eisenmenger syndrome.
Design:
Prospective observational study.
Setting:
Tertiary care referral centre in North India.
Participants:
The study included 25 patients with Eisenmenger syndrome (mean age 25.2±9.6 years, 18 men) and 12 patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease with pulmonary stenosis physiology (mean age 20.5±8.5 years, 8 men) as controls.
Interventions:
All the patients underwent an overnight comprehensive polysomnogram study and pulmonary function testing.
Main Outcome Measure:
Oxygen desaturation index, which is the number of oxygen drops per hour.
Results:
The patients and controls had significant nocturnal hypoxaemia in the absence of apnoea and hypopnoea. The mean oxygen drop index in Eisenmenger syndrome group was 9.0±6.2 and in the control group was 8.0±5.9 (p=0.63). The apnoea-hypopnoea index was 3.37±5.0 in the Eisenmenger syndrome group and was 2.1±3.6 in the control group. Patients with >10 oxygen drops per hour had significantly higher haemoglobin (17.2±1.3% vs 14.4±1.5%, p<0.001) than those with oxygen drops less than 10.
Conclusions:
Eisenmenger syndrome patients have significant nocturnal hypoxaemia unrelated to hypopnoea and apnoea. Nocturnal desaturation occurred more frequently in patients with greater haemoglobin values.
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