[The clinical importance of breathing disorders during sleep in the acute phase of strokes].
The temporal association between sleep-disordered breathing and the acute phase of cerebrovascular disease has been established. The question raised in this writing is about the clinic relevance of this association during the acute phase of stroke trying to answer questions like the relation with an excess of sleep-disordered breathing, with the characteristics of stroke and its influence in prognosis, either at short and long term.
Galiano
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Sección de Neurología, Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital General de Requena, Valencia, España. galiano_raf@gva.es
D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes; D020521:Stroke