title: Sleep disordered breathing at the extremes of age: infancy.
abstract: The reader will be able to: Understand normal sleep patterns in infancyAppreciate disorders of breathing in infancyAppreciate disorders of respiratory control. Normal sleep in infancy is a time of change with alterations in sleep architecture, sleep duration, sleep patterns and respiratory control as an infant grows older. Interactions between sleep and respiration are key to the mechanisms by which infants are vulnerable to sleep disordered breathing. This review discusses normal sleep in infancy, as well as normal sleep breathing in infancy. Sleep disordered breathing (obstructive and central) as well as disorders of ventilatory control and infant causes of hypoventilation are all reviewed in detail.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK; Dept of Child Life and Health, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: Don S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Urquhart
authors.affiliation: Dept of Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: Hui-Leng
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Tan