Cardiac failure presenting as sleep apnea. Elimination of apnea following medical management of cardiac failure.
A patient with symptoms of sleep apnea syndrome had signs of congestive cardiac failure. A sleep study fulfilled the criteria for sleep apnea. Features of Cheyne-Stokes respiration coexisted. Management of the cardiac failure by weight loss principally due to diuretic use eliminated the symptoms of sleep apnea.
Baylor
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VA Medical Center, Fresno, CA.
Tayloe
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Owen
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D
Sanders
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C
D002639:Cheyne-Stokes Respiration / Q000175:diagnosis; D004232:Diuretics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy
D004232:Diuretics