Sleep medicine
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Letter Case Reports
Dependent edema and ascites associated with CPAP/BiPAP treatment of sleep apnea.
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We postulate that the prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in subjects admitted with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is high, self-report of SDB symptoms is helpful in identifying patients with ACS at risk for SDB, and prospective risk for adverse ACS outcomes is associated with SDB. ⋯ In the setting of ACS, the prevalence of SDB was very high in this population and was not detected by self-reports of sleepiness or composite risk for SDB. The odds of adverse outcome for ACS up to 6 months were no different in patients with SDB compared to those without SDB, as compared to effects of an older age or presence of diabetes.
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To compare subjective and objective measures of sleep in traumatic brain injury patients (TBI) suffering from insomnia and in controls. ⋯ These results are similar to those found in patients with either primary insomnia or insomnia related to depression.