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  • Title: Effects of physiological cardiac pacing on sleep-disordered breathing in patients with chronic bradydysrhythmias.
    Author: Kato I, Shiomi T, Sasanabe R, Hasegawa R, Otake K, Banno K, Yamakawa H, Mizutani N, Kobayashi T.
    Journal: Psychiatry Clin Neurosci; 2001 Jun; 55(3):257-8. PubMed ID: 11422865.
    Abstract:
    In six patients with chronic bradydysrhythmias, polysomnographies were performed before cardiac pacemaker implantation and over the week following implantation. A patient with third-degree atrioventricular block (AVB) and two patients with sinus node dysfunction (SND) were associated with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). Their cardiac pacemaker therapies, with the increase in the average heart rate, led to a reduction of apnea-hypopnea index and/or an improvement of Cheyne-Stokes breathing. It seems that chronic bradydysrhythmia is one of the causative factors leading to SDB.
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