Effects of obstructive sleep apnoea on heart rhythm

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1439-1451

  Rossi, Valentina A ^a   Stradling, John R ^c   Kohler, Malcolm ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Autonomic nervous system; Cardiac arrhythmias; Hypoxaemia; Sleep disordered breathing; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRADYCARDIA; CORONARY ARTERY CONSTRICTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART BLOCK; HEART INJURY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE EXCITABILITY; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP AROUSAL DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THORAX PRESSURE; ANOXIA; COMPLICATION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HEART; HYPERTENSION; INTERVENTION STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ANOXIA; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HEART; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MYOCARDIUM; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY AS TOPIC; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84878808306     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00128412     Document Type: Review

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