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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Sleep Sci 2020; 13(01): 88-91
DOI: 10.5935/1984-0063.20190120
CASE REPORTS

Sleep apnea: before and after heart transplant

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  • Elsa Matos

    1   Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Pulmonology - Vila Real - Vila Real - Portugal

  • Teresa Calvo

    1   Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Pulmonology - Vila Real - Vila Real - Portugal

  • Duarte Rocha

    1   Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Pulmonology - Vila Real - Vila Real - Portugal

  • Ana Ferreira

    1   Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Pulmonology - Vila Real - Vila Real - Portugal

  • Helena Moreira

    1   Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Pulmonology - Vila Real - Vila Real - Portugal

  • Ana Mendes

    1   Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Pulmonology - Vila Real - Vila Real - Portugal

  • Isabel Ferradosa

    1   Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Pulmonology - Vila Real - Vila Real - Portugal

  • Ana Fernandes

    1   Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Pulmonology - Vila Real - Vila Real - Portugal
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Sleep disorder breathing is a highly prevalent public health problem and is common among patients with cardio and cerebrovascular diseases. Respiratory events are associated with numerous consequences, such as the hyperadrenergic state, known as a predictor of premature mortality in patients with heart failure. On the other hand, reduced stroke volume is associated with fluid retention in patients with heart failure, leading to changes in the upper airflow dynamics. Whether and how to treat sleep disorder breathing enables chronic cardiovascular consequences to be reversed is not fully established. Few cases are known where sleep disordered breathing diagnosis was made several years before heart transplantation. To better understand how does sleep apnea evolve and to ponder about what is the best treatment approach in this context, is the objective with this case presentation.

Heart Transplantation - Sleep Apnea - Central - Sleep Apnea - Obstructive


Publication History

Received: 05 January 2019

Accepted: 14 November 2019

Article published online:
09 November 2023

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