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- Title
Un caso di gestione dei disturbi respiratori del sonno in corso di siringomielia/siringobulbia: successo in ventilazione auto-Bilevel.
- Authors
Tartamella, Francesco; Chillura, Antonino; Pisano, Maria Francesca
- Abstract
Syringomyelia patients manifest various forms of sleep-related breathing disorders that potentially can lead the patient to chronic daytime respiratory failure. Authors describe a case of a 49-year-old woman which, in addition to neurological disorders, complained of a long neglected day and night respiratory symptomatology. Nocturnal polygraphy showed the presence of a severe nocturnal obstructive apnea in addition to prolonged non-obstructive desaturating phases. Following an unsuccessful attempt of CPAP ventilation, the patient was successfully initiated with ventilation in auto-BiLevel mode with complete compensation of nocturnal disventilation disorders, with remission of accused symptoms and diurnal blood gas imbalances.
- Publication
Rassegna di Patologia dell'Apparato Respiratorio, 2019, Vol 34, Issue 5/6, p201
- ISSN
0033-9563
- Publication type
Article