title: Tracheostomy can fatally exacerbate sleep-disordered breathing in multiple system atrophy.
abstract: Tracheostomy has been employed to release the airway obstruction at the glottic level and to prevent sudden death in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA). However, sudden death is possible even after tracheostomy. Nocturnal polysomnography showed that the apnea-hypopnea index became higher after tracheostomy, and all tracheostomized patients had frequent central sleep apneas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Iwate National Hospital, Yamanome, Ichinoseki, Iwate, Japan. jink@em.neurol.med.tohoku.ac.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Okabe
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chida
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kimpara
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ohnuma
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Itoyama
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Onodera
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019578:Multiple System Atrophy / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D017286:Polysomnography; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012125:Respiratory Center / Q000503:physiopathology; D012307:Risk Factors; D020182:Sleep Apnea, Central / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014139:Tracheostomy / Q000009:adverse effects*