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Article: Percutaneous coronary intervention can improve sleep apnea.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- April 11, 2004
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2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Percutaneous coronary intervention can improve sleep apnea.
"Central sleep apnea is often recognized in patients with heart failure," cardiologists in Japan explained. "Although the medical treatment to improve cardiac function is effective for sleep apnea, direct evidence that improved cardiac function ameliorates sleep apnea has not been reported due to the fact that a particular drug may affect a multitude of organs."
T. Betsuyaku and colleagues at National Nishi Sapporo Hospital reported "a chronic heart failure patient with central sleep apnea whose nocturnal desaturation was improved by percutaneous ...