Respiratory and hemodynamic study during wakefulness and sleep in myotonic dystrophy

Six young male patients with grade I (mild) myotonic dystrophy and a complaint of excessive daytime sleepiness were studied during wakefulness and sleep. Pulmonary function tests during wakefulness showed evidence of mild abnormality related to respiratory muscle weakness. During sleep, some patients developed a sleep apnea syndrome with high sleep Apnea Indices. There was no relation between hypoxic and hypercapnic ventilatory responses during wakefulness and sleep Apnea Indices. But hypoxemia and hypercapnia worsened considerably during REM sleep. Myotonic dystrophy patients with sleep apnea presented increased pulmonary and systemic arterial pressures during sleep. It was also during sleep that arrhythmias were observed.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1978

Erschienen:

1978

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:1

Enthalten in:

Sleep - 1(1978), 1 vom: 25. Sept., Seite 19-31

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Guilleminault, C [VerfasserIn]
Cummiskey, J [VerfasserIn]
Motta, J [VerfasserIn]
Lynne-Davies, P [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

142M471B3J
Carbon Dioxide
Journal Article
Oxygen
S88TT14065

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 20.12.1979

Date Revised 09.05.2019

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM002255758