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Short-term effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy on sleep-disordered breathing in patients with systolic heart failure

Authors

KÁRA Tomáš NOVÁK Miroslav NYKODYM Jiří BYBEE KA MELUZÍN Jaroslav ORBAN Marek NOVÁKOVÁ Zuzana LIPOLDOVÁ Jolana HAYES David L. SOUČEK Miroslav VÍTOVEC Jiří SOMERS Virend K

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Chest
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Cardiovascular diseases incl. cardiosurgery
Keywords cardiac resynchronization; mitral regurgitation; sleep apnea
Description We evaluated the short-term effect of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) on sleep apnea in patients with systolic heart failure. Sleep-disorder breathing is common in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Our results show that CRT reduces central sleep apneas severity in the short term. This reduction correlated significantly with the CRT-mediated reduction of mitral regurgitation.
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