title: [Sleep apnea syndrome].
abstract: Sleep Apnea Syndrome is an understimated disease. We describe its diagnostic criterion and principal epidemiologic data. After a brief rememory about sleep and respiration, its physiopathologic consequences (especially respiratory, cardiovascular and cerebral) were detailed. The diagnostic of its different clinical presentations is suspected clinically but confirmed by polysomnography. His treatment, usually based on the CPAP, permits to prevent its complications.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Hédi Chaker, Sfax.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ayoub
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barkia
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kammoun
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D017286:Polysomnography; D012119:Respiration; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*