Effectiveness of Nocturnal Home Oxygen Therapy to Improve Exercise Capacity, Cardiac Function and Cardiac Sympathetic Nerve Activity in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure and Central Sleep Apnea

Background Central sleep apnea, often found in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), has a high risk of poor prognosis. Methods and Results This study involved 20 patients with CHF (left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) <45%, M/F =19/1, age 65±10 years) and an apnea-hypopnea index (AHI)...

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Hauptverfasser: Takuji Toyama, Ryotaro Seki, Shu Kasama, Naoki Isobe, Shigeki Sakurai, Hitoshi Adachi, Hiroshi Hoshizaki, Shigeru Oshima, Koichi Taniguchi
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2009
Online-Zugang:https://doi.org/10.1253/circj.cj-07-0297
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/circj/73/2/73_CJ-07-0297/_pdf
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