Central sleep apnoea in congestive heart failure despite vagal denervation after bilateral lung transplantation.
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.
Solin
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Dept of Respiratory Medicine and Monash University Medical School, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria, Australia.
Snell
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Williams
T J
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Naughton
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D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000294:innervation; D016040:Lung Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014628:Vagotomy; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000502:physiology* / Q000601:surgery