Adaptive Servo-Ventilation for Central Sleep Apnea in Systolic Heart Failure

Cowie, Martín; Woehrle, Holger; Wegscheider, Karl; Angermann, Christiane; d’Ortho, Marie‐Pia; Erdmann, Erland; Lévy, Patrick; K. Simonds, Anita; K. Somers, Virend; Zannad, Faı̈ez; Teschler, Helmut

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1506459

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Adaptive Servo-Ventilation for Central Sleep Apnea in Systolic Heart Failure

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Sep 1, 2015

Authors:

Martín Cowie

Holger Woehrle

Karl Wegscheider

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Central sleep apnea is associated with poor prognosis and death in patients with heart failure. Adaptive servo-ventilation is a therapy that uses a noninvasive ventilator to treat central sleep apnea by delivering servo-controlled inspiratory pressure support on top of expiratory positiv...

Subject

Medicine

Central sleep apnea

Ejection fraction

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