[Successful treatment of bradyarrhythmia associated with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome by continuous positive airway pressure].

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS) is an additional independent factor of growth of cardiovascular mortality. Special role disturbances of respiration during sleep play in development of nocturnal cardiac arrhythmias. Approaches to correction of OSAS associated nocturnal bradyarrhythmias have substantially changed during recent years. We present report of a clinical case in which we detected relation of nocturnal bradyarrhythmias to OSAS. Adequate correction of OSAS by continuous positive airway pressure therapy resulted in complete elimination of bradyarrhythmias during night time. This allowed to avoid implantation of permanent pacemaker.