Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Adults with Precapillary Pulmonary Hypertension: Prevalence and Predictors of Nocturnal Hypoxemia

• Published in: Lung Vol. 200; no. 4; pp. 523 - 530
• Main Authors: Murta, Marcia S., Duarte, Ricardo L. M., Waetge, Daniel, Gozal, David, Cardoso, Alexandre P., Mello, Fernanda C. Q.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.08.2022; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adults; Analysis; Apnea; Breathing; Dependent variables; Desaturation; Diagnosis; Evaluation; Goodness of fit; Hemodynamics; Hypertension; Hypoxemia; Hypoxia; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Oxygen content; Parameters; Pneumology/Respiratory System; Pulmonary arteries; Pulmonary artery; Pulmonary hypertension; Regression analysis; Regression coefficients; Regression models; Respiration; Sleep; Sleep apnea; Sleep apnea syndromes; Sleep Disordered Breathing and Pulmonary Hypertension; Sleep disorders; Thromboembolism; Brazil; Polysomnography; Nocturnal hypoxemia; Sleep-disordered breathing; Pulmonary hypertension

Purpose To evaluate the frequency of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and predictors of the presence of nocturnal desaturation in adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Methods Outpatients with a hemodynamic diagnosis of precapillary pulmonary...