Heart failure and sleep disordered breathing

Prognosis and sleep disordered breathing in heart failure.

Abnormal breathing in heart failure as originally described by Cheyne and subsequently by Stokes was observed in apparently awake patients as an agonal breathing pattern. “. . . The only peculiarity in the last period of his illness was in the state of the respiration. For several days his breathing was irregular, then it would become perceptible, though very low, then by degrees it became heav...

Sleep disordered breathing and its treatment in congestive heart failure.

Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is a common problem with adverse cardiorespiratory, endocrinological, and endothelial effects. Recent studies demonstrate an even higher prevalence of SDB in congestive heart failure (CHF) than in a randomly selected population, with up to 40% and 11% having Cheyne Stokes respiration-central sleep apnoea and obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea syndromes, respecti...

Sleep‐disordered breathing in heart failure: facts and numbers

Sleep-disordered breathing has a high prevalence in the general population, but is especially prominent in patients with heart failure (HF). HF and sleep-disordered breathing share a bidirectional relationship, with sleep-disordered breathing being both cause and effect of poor cardiac functioning. The high inter-individual variability of symptom presentation can impede the clinical diagnostic ...

Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Patients with Heart Failure: An Update

Sleep disordered breathing in heart failure: a contemporary assessment.

43 H eart failure (HF) is a public health problem of epidemic proportions, with a prevalence of more than 5 million in the United States, a figure that underestimates the true burden of disease, since a substantial portion of HF in the general population may be subclinical and remain undiagnosed. Despite an annual cost of nearly $30 billion dollars per year in the United States and increasingly...