title: Central sleep apnoea in congestive heart failure despite vagal denervation after bilateral lung transplantation.
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.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Respiratory Medicine and Monash University Medical School, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Solin
authors.forename: G I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Snell
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Naughton
mesh_terms: 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