The efficacy of nasal oxygen during sleep was evaluated in patients with COPD, episodic rapid eye movement sleep desaturation, and a daytime PaO2 greater t...
Long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) is the only component of the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that improves survival in patients ...
The hypothesis that supplemental oxygen could improve the quality of sleep was tested in 23 consecutive patients (14 male, nine female; age 42-74 years) wi...
Sleep-disturbed breathing (SDB) is common in pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension (PH) and impairs daytime performance. In lack of proven effective treatme...
Patients with () present with impairments of their cognitive performance. It is still unknown whether influence driving abilities in patients with . The pr...
There is increasing evidence that both obstructive and central sleep apnea contribute to the progression and prognosis in patients with chronic heart failu...
This study was designed to test a hypothesis that patients with sleep apnea have higher blood pressure in the morning, following a night spent in apnea and...
Long-term treatment with supplemental oxygen has unknown efficacy in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and resting or exerc...
Objective To determine the prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing in patients with stable, optimally treated chronic congestive heart failure and the eff...
Nocturnal hypoxemia and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are common comorbidities in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The authors s...