title: Seamless adaptive servo-ventilation therapy after triple-valve surgery.
abstract: A 70-year-old man with severe multivalvular disease, atrial fibrillation, and kyphoscoliosis, had Cheyne-Stokes respiration with central sleep apnea. After triple-valve surgery with the maze procedure, adjunctive adaptive servo-ventilation therapy was initiated on the first postoperative day and continued seamlessly in the postoperative period. Seamless adaptive servo-ventilation therapy as an adjunct to triple-valve surgery is more likely to prevent heart failure remodeling without worsening of pulmonary hypertension and recurrence of atrial fibrillation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mimihara General Hospital, Osaka, Japan rtcryo@hotmail.co.jp.
authors.forename: Takehiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Shintaro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yugami
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Takako
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nishino
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Toshihiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saga
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D017115:Catheter Ablation; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D058386:Mitral Valve Annuloplasty / Q000009:adverse effects; D017286:Polysomnography; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D020182:Sleep Apnea, Central / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*
keywords: Atrial fibrillation; Cheyne-Stokes respiration; adaptive servo-ventilation; scoliosis; sleep-disordered breathing; triple-valve surgery