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Quantifying the ventilatory control contribution to sleep apnoea using polysomnography.
The European respiratory journal - 1 Feb 2015
Terrill Philip I, Edwards Bradley A, Nemati Shamim, Butler James P, Owens Robert L, Eckert Danny J, White David P, Malhotra Atul, Wellman Andrew, Sands Scott A
Abstract excerpt
Elevated loop gain, consequent to hypersensitive ventilatory control, is a primary nonanatomical cause of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) but it is not possible to quantify this in the clinic. Here we provide a novel method to estimate loop gain in OSA patients using routine clinical polysomnograp...
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