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- Title
Apnoea syndrome to an obese hypertensive patient.
- Authors
Mitu, F.; Boişteanu, Daniela; Ţurcanu, Adina M.
- Abstract
The severe forms of sleep apnoea often lead to sudden deaths, and the implementation of an efficient treatment leads to the normalisation of patients' lives by using this pathology. We report the case of a patient, aged 60 years, with morbid obesity and essential hypertension, who came for cardiovascular re-evaluation, and accused sleepiness, dyspnoea degree III mMRC, excessive diurnal sleepiness, memory and focus problems. Up to the admission, the patient has not benefitted from an expert opinion for a correct diagnosis. Following the clinical and paraclinical investigations, it is given the diagnosis of highly severe sleep apnoea, which requires permanent ventilation with positive pressure throughout the sleep periods.
- Subjects
APNEA; OVERWEIGHT persons; HYPERTENSION; PATIENTS; SUDDEN death; DROWSINESS; HEALTH
- Publication
Romanian Journal of Cardiology, 2013, Vol 23, Issue 1, p44
- ISSN
1220-658X
- Publication type
Case Study