title: [Noninvasive ventilation of a 4-year-old boy with severe central late onset hypoventilation syndrome].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In the literature we found only five reports about noninvasive ventilation in cases with central hypoventilation syndrome.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report about a 4-year-old boy with severe late onset hypoventilation syndrome. During an interval of 3 months with nasal mask ventilation during sleep he showed an excellent cognitive and statomotoric development. After this time, he needed a noninvasive ventilation with a negative pressure system.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In our opinion, noninvasive nasal mask ventilation is a modern method in the treatment of patients with central hypoventilation syndrome. Tracheotomy is only necessary during the first year of life.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinderheilkunde, Universitätsklinikums Carl Gustav Carus der Technischen Universität Dresden.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Paditz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dinger
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Reitemeier
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Steinak
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schobess
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Brömme
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Reuner
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Heinicke
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kreuz
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schwarze
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007385:Intermittent Positive-Pressure Ventilation; D008297:Male; D017286:Polysomnography; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000628:therapy*
vernacular_title: Nichtinvasive Beatmung bei einem vierjährigen Jungen mit schwerem zentralen "late onset"-Hypoventilationssyndrom.