title: Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Cardiac Arrhythmias.
abstract: Over the past few years sleep-disordered breathing has been identified as an important factor in arrhythmogenesis and a potential target of therapy to prevent cardiac arrhythmias in selected patients. In this review we highlight the role of obstructive sleep apnea and Cheyne-Stokes respiration in the pathophysiology of arrhythmias, address their clinical effect in supraventricular and ventricular tachyarrhythmias, and in conduction disturbances, and address the role of current treatment options for sleep-disordered breathing in the primary and secondary prevention of arrhythmic events.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. Electronic address: akleemeyer@hdz-nrw.de.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bitter
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fox
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
authors.forename: SaiPrassad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gaddam
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
authors.forename: Dieter
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Horstkotte
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
authors.forename: Olaf
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Oldenburg
mesh_terms: D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D009017:Morbidity; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000150:complications*