T are 2 possible rationales for treating Cheyne-Stokes respiration or central sleep apnea (CSA) in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). First, alleviation of CSA might alleviate symptoms directly related to CSA, such as sleep disruption and excessive daytime sleepiness. Second, treating CSA might improve cardiovascular outcomes, such as cardiovascular function, as well as morbidity and...

Authors are with the Medical College of Wisconsin. Doctor Meyer is a resident in Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences; Dr. Woodson is Associate Professor Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences. INTRODUCTION Primary snoring and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) lie at separate extremes of a continuum of sleep-related breathing disorders. In the 30-year-old population, 20% of men and 5% of wo...

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Sleep apnoea hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) has been identified as an independent risk factor for adverse cardiovascular events in patients admitted with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) [1]. Most people with SAHS, including those with ACS, are undiagnosed. Konecny and colleagues [2] reported a prevalence of previously diagnosed or suspected SAHS (specificall obstructive sleep apnoea) of 14% among 74...

In this contribution we propose a new module for handling idioms and distributional idiosyncrasies. Based on the concept by Richter/Sailer (1999) the new feature COLL (context of lexical licensing) plays the central role in our approach. We provide a way to handle decomposable and nondecomposable idioms and idioms containing bound words. Our module guarantees the co-occurrence of all idiom part...

•Most sleep apps available to consumers are designed enhance by reducing latency with auditory stimuli.•While most do not have peer-reviewed evidence supporting the specific app, use types of enhancement that backed scientific evidence.•Sleep widely available, low no cost, and mostly focus on helping consumer fall faster using sounds.•Sleep could be considered a possible strategy for patients i...

“Murugan sat suddenly upright, the sweat pounding off his face, not sure whether he was still dreaming or awake. The net was buzzing with mosquitoes; he could see them dancing like motes, in the finger of light that bisected his bed. His whole body was aflame, covered with bites. He had been scratching himself furiously in his sleep; he could see blood on his fingernails, and on the sheets.” So...

Correspondence to: Professor J P Galmiche, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes, Place Alexis Ricordeau, 44093 Nantes CEDEX 01, France; [email protected] _________________________ RATIONALE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENDOLUMINAL THERAPY IN GORD Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) is a common chronic disorder that has severe impact on quality o...

I have read with interest the paper in which DEEGAN and MCNICHOLAS [1] try to find prediction rules for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS). Yet, there are several questions I would like to pose: 1) The need for clear-cut guidelines for assessment of OSAS patients has been recently stressed [2, 3]. In this sense, my question is: why is an apnoea-hypopnoea index (AHI) of 15 events·hr-1 used...

BetaText can be described as an event driven pr(xluction system, in which (c~mbinations of) text events lead to certain actions, such as the printing of sentences that exhibit certain, say, syntactic phenomena. %~]e analysis mechanism used allows for arbitrarily complex parsing, but is particularly suitable for finite state i~arsing. A careful investigation of what is actually needed in linguis...