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Central sleep apnoea in congestive heart failure despite vagal denervation after bilateral lung transplantation
P Solin1, G I Snell, T J Williams
1Dept of Respiratory Medicine and Monash University Medical School, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria, Australia.
The European Respiratory Journal
|September 4, 1998
Abstract:
Nonhypercapnic central sleep apnoea is a disorder of respiratory control characterized by hyperventilation previously attributed to the stimulation of either pulmonary vagal afferent nerve fibres or respiratory chemoreceptors. This report describes central sleep apnoea in a patient with congestive heart failure following bilateral lung transplant in whom pulmonary vagal afferent nerve activity was absent.