Effect of continuous positive airway pressure on ventricular ectopy in heart failure patients with obstructive sleep apnoea

Thorax

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 781-785

  Ryan, C M ^b   Usui, K ^b   Floras, J S ^b   Bradley, T D ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; MALE; NORADRENALIN URINE LEVEL; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OXYGEN SATURATION; PARAMETER; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP TIME; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ARRHYTHMIA; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION;

EID: 24744463087     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2005.040972     Document Type: Article

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