[The importance of treatment for breathing disorders during sleep in stroke patients].
In the following exposure, we revised the possibility that the treatment of sleep-disordered breathing with continuous nasal positive airway pressure could be potentially beneficial in three aspects: to control the sleep-disordered breathing as a risk factor for stroke, acting, in this sense, as primary prophylaxis; improving the prognosis of stroke, through conditioning a better functional recuperation or a lower mortality and finally through the control of recurrences, acting, in this sense, as secondary prophylaxis.
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Hospital Sagrat Cor, 08029 Barcelona, Espana. 22515opo@comb.es
D006801:Humans; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000628:therapy*; D020521:Stroke