Central Sleep Apnea
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
Central sleep apnea is a disorder in which your breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep. Central sleep apnea occurs because your brain doesn’t send proper signals to the muscles that control your breathing.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: 11-Central Sleep Apnea
Diagnosis: The brain accidentally does not have the lungs breathe in, losing fresh oxygen
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Brain Area: pre-Botzinger complex – in the cerebellum which controls the regularity of breathing
Symptoms: Gaps in breaithing can damage or kill brain cells due to lack of fresh oxygen.
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Therapies: Bi-pap and C-pap breathing machines help the regularity of breathing.
Youtube Video: Understanding Mechanisms of Central Sleep Apnea
Amazon or libarary Book: Central Sleep Apnea
Click the book to link or order from Amazon.
Support Group: sleepeducation.org/sleepdisorders; 630-737-9700; (AASM-American Academy of Sleep Disorders)
Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
Clicking each title opens the
PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- A Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of BiPAP Pressure Settings on Airway Biomechanics Using a CT-Based Respiratory Tract Modelby Xinlei Huang on January 18, 2025
Central and Obstructive Sleep Apnea (CSA and OSA), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), and Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome (OHS) disrupt breathing patterns, posing significant health risks and reducing the quality of life. Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure (BiPAP) therapy offers adjustable inhalation and exhalation pressures, potentially enhancing treatment adaptability for the above diseases. This is the first-ever study that employs Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to examine the...
- Treatment-emergent central sleep apnea in patients treated with a mandibular advancement deviceby Hédi Aïssani on January 17, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: TECSA is a rare phenomenon that can occur in patients treated with a MAD for an OSAS. Clinical, polysomnographic and treatment-related risk factors have yet to be reassessed in larger cohorts. These findings suggest probably poorer subjective clinical outcomes in terms of sleepiness and quality of life in patients with MAD-related TECSA.
- Sleep and breathing in children with Joubert syndrome and a review of other rare congenital hindbrain malformationsby Jia-Der Ju-Wang on January 16, 2025
CONCLUSION: SDB is common and severe in patients with JS, and the significantly greater obstructive component reported in this cohort makes it necessary to perform complete PSG studies to address or prevent clinical manifestations in this at-risk population. PSQ could represent a viable method to screen for SDB in JS.
- Approach to the Patient with Achondroplasia - New Considerations for Diagnosis, Management and Treatmentby Nadia Merchant on January 15, 2025
Achondroplasia is the most common disproportionate short-stature skeletal dysplasia. Features associated with achondroplasia are rhizomelia, macrocephaly, midface hypoplasia, and typical cognition. Potential medical complications include foramen magnum stenosis, hydrocephalus, middle ear dysfunction, obstructive and central sleep apnea, spinal stenosis and genu varum. Recently, vosoritide, a CNP analogue, was approved by the FDA with the primary indication of increasing linear growth in all...