Sleep-disordered breathing in pregnancy: A review of the physiology and potential role for positional therapy

Sleep and Breathing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 31-37

  Morong, S ^a   Hermsen, B ^a   De Vries, N ^a  

^a ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Obstructive sleep apnea; Positional therapy; Pregnancy; Supine hypotensive syndrome

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AMNION FLUID EMBOLISM; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BREATHING; CESAREAN SECTION; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; FETUS MOVEMENT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; INTRAUTERINE PRESSURE; LEG CRAMP; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE CRAMP; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NOCTURIA; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTAL ABRUPTION; POSITIONAL THERAPY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUERPERIUM; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REM SLEEP; RESPIRATORY DISTURBANCE INDEX; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP STAGE; SLEEP TIME; SNORING; SUPINE HYPOTENSION SYNDROME; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UPPER AIRWAY RESISTANCE SYNDROME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VENOUS RETURN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; DYSPNEA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; OXYGEN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROGESTERONE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 84897081587     PISSN: 15209512     EISSN: 15221709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11325-013-0849-9     Document Type: Review

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