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Obstructive sleep apnea associated with cerebral hypoxemia and death
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Obstructive sleep apnea associated with cerebral hypoxemia and death

Mark Eric DYKEN, Thoru YAMADA, Christine L GLENN and Herbert A BERGER
Neurology, Vol.62(3), pp.491-493
2004
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000106952.84223.F3
PMID: 14872041

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Abstract

An increase in the arousal threshold may predispose critically ill patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to prolonged apneas and death during sleep. We report two cases in whom polysomnographically documented OSA resulted in EEG changes compatible with cerebral hypoxemia with subsequent respective transient encephalopathy in one instance and death in the other.
Neurology Biological and medical sciences Medical sciences

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