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1/17. Respiratory control and respiratory sensation in a patient with a ganglioglioma within the dorsocaudal brain stem.

    We encountered a young woman with severe central sleep apnea caused by a medullary glioma located slightly dorsal to and to the right of the midline, a region not generally associated with CO(2) chemosensitivity. The patient had normal spirometric readings, lung volumes, diffusing capacity, maximal inspiratory pressure, and alveolar-arterial oxygen difference. While awake, she displayed marked irregularity in her breathing pattern; her end-tidal CO(2) (FET(CO(2))) ranged from 5.3 to 10.9%. During voluntary hyperpnea, she could quickly reduce her FET(CO(2)) to 4.2%, but her PCO(2) did not change after administration of acetazolamide or progesterone. Like patients with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), our patient had a relatively intact ventilatory response to exercise; her PCO(2) was high at the start of exercise and increased slightly thereafter. In contrast to CCHS patients, however, our patient had an intact hypoxic ventilatory response (DeltaVE/ DeltaSa(O(2)) = -0.37 L/min/Sa(O(2))). In further contrast to CCHS patients, our patient had a very short breathholding time and described a sensation of air hunger as the factor limiting her breathholding ability. Her heart rate and blood pressure responses to the valsalva maneuver were normal.
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2/17. Unusual respiratory response to oxygen in an infant with repetitive cyanotic episodes.

    High inspired oxygen concentrations have recently been recommended to control cheyne-stokes respiration in adults, with the intention of averting periodic apnea and its attendant arterial desaturation. We report a case study on an infant presenting with recurrent apnea and cyanosis in which oxygen treatment led to a gross form of respiratory instability we call episodic breathing, in which a breathing phase of 60 to 90 s alternated with an apnea lasting up to 60 s. When oxygen was discontinued, a profound arterial desaturation developed before breathing recommenced and restored oxygen levels. We propose that episodic breathing is an unusual respiratory pattern that involves the central chemoreceptors and results from the ventilatory threshold (the central PCO(2) at which breathing starts) lying considerably above the apneic threshold (the central PCO(2 )at which breathing stops). This feature predisposes to lengthy periods of hyperpnea alternating with lengthy periods of apnea. We suggest that when the case infant returned to air during episodic breathing, termination of apnea was entirely dependent upon carotid body activity, which reached a sufficient level to restart breathing only when arterial desaturation was severe. We conclude that oxygen therapy involves potential risks when employed to treat respiratory disorders involving unstable breathing patterns in the infant.
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3/17. Primary pulmonary hypertension with central sleep apnea: sudden death after bilevel positive airway pressure therapy.

    An obese 23-year-old man with sleep-disordered breathing and primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) had been administered oral beraprost sodium, anticoagulant warfarin, and home oxygen therapy, at another hospital as treatment for the PPH, but he had not experienced any symptomatic improvement. The patient had a body mass index of 32.4kg/m2, and complained of fatigue, shortness of breath on exertion, excessive daytime sleepiness, and snoring. Arterial blood gas analysis showed a PaO2 and a PaCO2 of 70.9 and 31.2mmHg, respectively. A polysomnographic study revealed central sleep apnea with an apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) of 29.7episodes/h. The patient showed improvement of daytime sleepiness after starting nocturnal nasal bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP) therapy for the central sleep apnea, but his pulmonary hypertension, measured in the daytime, worsened. The patient died suddenly while walking to the bathroom in the morning 1 month after initiation of BiPAP therapy. It is necessary to consider the possibility of sudden death when nasal BiPAP therapy is given to a PPH patient with central sleep apnea.
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4/17. Characteristics of breathing abnormality in Leigh and its overlap syndromes.

    In this report we describe the respiratory patterns of six patients with Leigh syndrome, including two individual cases with accompanying clinical phenotypes of Alpers disease and mitochondrial encephalopathy with ragged red fibers. In five cases where sleep apnea was monitored, each one showed isolated or post-sigh central apnea, hiccup, apneusis-like breathing and obstructive apnea in various combinations. The remaining patient with Alpers/Leigh overlap syndrome showed an apneusis-like pattern of dyspnea. The sleep structure was examined in three patients.Two patients with brainstem lesions showed a decrease in the deep sleep stages and an absence of REM sleep. Medullary lesions were found in four patients by magnetic resonance imaging or at autopsy and involved predominantly the dorsal respiratory group (DRG) of medullary neurons. The role of DRG lesions in the pathophysiology of respiratory symptoms in Leigh syndrome is discussed.
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5/17. Congestive heart failure and continuous positive airway pressure therapy: support of a new modality for improving the prognosis and survival of patients with advanced congestive heart failure.

    Nasal continuous positive airway pressure therapy has recently been studied as a nonpharmacologic adjunct to congestive heart failure therapy. In patients with congestive heart failure, it was reported that continuous positive airway pressure therapy for the condition cheyne-stokes respiration with central sleep apnea led to long-term improvements in cardiac function and alleviation of heart failure symptoms. cheyne-stokes respiration with central sleep apnea is a frequent breathing disorder well described in patients with congestive heart failure, and is an associated risk factor for increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. These apneas cause an increase in sympathetic nervous system activity, which would maintain afterload at a high level or tend to increase it with time, leading to further compromise of ejection fraction. continuous positive airway pressure appears to benefit the failing heart by increasing intrathoracic pressure, which is believed to cause an increase in cardiac output by decreasing the pressure gradient across the heart wall and allowing the left-ventricular end diastolic volume to decrease, thereby reducing the afterload. This beneficial "resting" of the heart has been documented to increase left-ventricular ejection fraction, increase cardiac index, improve inspiratory muscle strength, lower blood pressure and heart rate, decrease plasma and overnight urinary levels of norepinephrine, lower levels of atrial natriuretic peptide and endothelin-1, and increase heart rate variability. Other benefits include improvement in new york Heart association functional class status and improvement in dyspnea.
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6/17. Polysomnographic features of idiopathic central sleep apnea.

    Two patients with idiopathic central sleep apnea (ICSA), which is an uncommon condition, were recently encountered. This study examines the polysomnographic features of ICSA. The characteristic findings of ICSA are summarized as follows: (i) central apneas and hypopneas are progressively less frequent as sleep state deepens from stage 1 to stage 2 to stage 3 4 to stage REM (rapid eye movement); (ii) desaturation related to apneas and hypopneas is mild; and (iii) periodic breathing is commonly observed. However, the two patients demonstrated apparently different findings. It is suggested that the mechanisms underlying apnea and hypopnea in ICSA are heterogeneous.
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7/17. Mother-daughter transmission of congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.

    The cause of congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is unknown, but a genetic etiology is strongly suspected. We report a 25-year-old woman with CCHS (no Hirschsprung's disease) who gave birth to a daughter who also has CCHS. This suggests a dominant mode of inheritance for CCHS in this family. pregnancy can be associated with physiologic challenges in CCHS. The increase in endogenous progesterone may stimulate breathing and may possibly improve symptoms of hypoventilation. Although this patient did not have any worsening in symptoms, her hyperoxic hypercapnic rebreathing ventilatory response was not different when pregnant versus when not pregnant. Ventilatory support for the patient was successfully managed with diaphragm pacing throughout the pregnancy without the need to adjust settings, despite the enlarged abdomen during pregnancy. We conclude that CCHS may be an inherited disorder. Increased endogenous progesterone during pregnancy has no effect on the ventilatory response, and diaphragm pacing can successfully provide adequate ventilation throughout pregnancy.
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8/17. sleep-disordered breathing and stroke.

    sleep-disordered breathing (obstructive and central sleep apnea) is common in persons who have had a cerebrovascular accident (CVA). This article describes both sleep-disordered breathing and CVAs and reviews the related risk factors that link them together. In addition, the article discusses sleep-disordered breathing after CVA. The article concludes by presenting the clinical implications of this topic for nurses.
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9/17. sleep-disordered breathing associated with long-term opioid therapy.

    Three patients are described who illustrate distinctive patterns of sleep-disordered breathing that we have observed in patients who are receiving long-term, sustained-release opioid medications. polysomnography shows respiratory disturbances occur predominantly during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and are characterized by ataxic breathing, central apneas, sustained hypoxemia, and unusually prolonged obstructive "hypopneas" secondary to delayed arousal responses. In contrast to what is usually observed in subjects with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), oxygen desaturation is more severe and respiratory disturbances are longer during NREM sleep compared to rapid eye movement sleep. Further studies are needed regarding the effects of opioids on respiration during sleep as well as the importance of interaction with other medications and associated risk factors for OSA.
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10/17. arnold-chiari malformation type I and sleep-disordered breathing: an uncommon manifestation of an important pediatric problem.

    A case review of a healthy 3-year-old toddler with a chief complaint of sleep-disordered breathing is presented. The child underwent a pneumogram sleep study with significant abnormal findings. magnetic resonance imaging led to a diagnosis of Arnold-Chiari type I malformation and the need for posterior fossa decompression. The child has been monitored, and 1 year postoperatively, her sleep apnea has resolved and day-time function and development remain normal. Definitions of the different types of arnold-chiari malformation are discussed, with sleep apnea presenting as the only symptom. The importance of a sleep history as part of the practitioner's pediatric assessment is explored.
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