title: Sleep apnea syndrome in patients with pulmonary thromboembolism.
abstract: Seven patients (one man and six women) with a diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) were examined by polysomnography in order to clarify the relationship between sleep-related breathing disorders and PTE. In the chronic stage of PTE, sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) was recognized in two patients (a man and a woman) among the subjects. Four of the five patients without SAS showed nocturnal hypoxemia. The female predominance was different from ordinary SAS without the disease background of PTE even though PTE is accompanied by hypoxemia and pulmonary hypertension like SAS. A pathophysiological relationship between PTE and SAS was not found in this study.
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Internal Medicine, Aichi Medical University, Japan.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shiomi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sasanabe
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Otake
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Banno
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Oki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maekawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taniguchi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ozeki
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D017286:Polysomnography; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000209:etiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000150:complications*
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen